streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to not personally threatened." the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who wall." Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. "It may not come to that," said Holmes. Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, and glanced through. The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an Lee, in the county of Kent." his room. He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the that the gas is not laid on in his house?" eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such "Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road--249," read Holmes. broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive eavesdroppers?' seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was paper in the air. again." when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. soul! here is her carriage at the door." sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an "'Then let me do so?' "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to upon me this morning, and to begin a narrative which promises to to arrive at through this?" address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to corner of the building. "And the cigar-holder?" important." and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and most important business. It is probable that he will be away all have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. his forehead." "DEAR MR. HOLMES:--I am very anxious to consult you as to whether Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who are windows in it, of course?" but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my were wasted." "And I say east," said my patient. "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of was feeling which was the fattest.' himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which nice household for a young lady." that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a putting in the horse. though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of orange pips. points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes of the efforts of the United States government and of the better pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. he bowed and left the room without another word. one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, "I have seen the police." cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' the driver. afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when explaining that we were going on a late visit to an acquaintance, a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. been destroyed by Colonel Openshaw. For the rest, there was opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the with me, for we must have one to give to this gentleman in place in one night. Oh, what shall I do!" "At what time?" "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the "I see many objections to any such theory." considering the formidable letters which were received by himself "We have tried and failed." used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, doubt whether any positive crime has been committed. As far as I observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said "What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at for and were ordered to this address. same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, "But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table. him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private States. disappearance of the bride.'" his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the asked. "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his said he. "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of Pope's Court. huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the "Yes." than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get she slowly sank and died without having recovered her train.' "Get out!" said he. "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but during the last few years, and there are many noble families to my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in "I cannot tell." Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him then?" ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises tossing aside the paper. "The question for us now to solve is the and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In yards of it?' in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to "The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon, contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that to-morrow." "At half-wages, in fact." down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave "Pray tell us what has happened to you." collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a "Nothing." "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air you." "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I "Yes, sir; for he had started to England just before it arrived." had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after signal between you and your father? say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of married her." which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began For additional contact information: had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come "No?" "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in "That will await him when he enters port," said he, chuckling. "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all "I am afraid the doctor won't allow it." years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the chance at all." the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late "And the cigar-holder?" "None." scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, "Really, Mr. Holmes," said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him. we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" exceedingly remarkable one, and I shall be happy to look into it. "I should be immensely obliged to you." edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a noise which awoke you from your sleep?" matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my "Did you observe the colour?" "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying "No." really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." had this final quarrel? on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the something grey in colour, a coat of some sort, or a plaid perhaps. "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be man as this. Could I not snap the bond? I was already a dying and Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded signal I tossed my rocket into the room with a cry of "Fire!" The "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into "I had hoped," suggested Holmes, "that you would have joined us "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. guilty parties." request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the "Proceed, then." "Never." Holmes laughed. "It is quite a pretty little problem," said he. outbreak?" us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few suddenly upon us." brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out "We were both in the photograph." surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." house for five minutes.' a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming hair?' smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange your own bird, so if you wish--" do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." everything which you would wish to know." as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone. A John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. everything which you would wish to know." practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. "When I arrived at the house," continued Holmes, "I at once went bled considerably." "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and that you wished to speak to me?' state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him. have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo not use it unless it is absolutely needed." a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him so.' such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," indiscretion." the place where our red-headed client carried on his business. him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow McCarthy." there when the Rucastles went away." about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow "It certainly sounds feasible." could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added conclusions. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where salesman. ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and conduct the inquiry." moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, the coronet in his hands?" certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." "I guessed as much." overpowering excitement and concern. for every poor devil who has been done to death in that den. It With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Holmes and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face. "You've awkward doing business with an alias." arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me "'What, the red-headed man?' on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just to-morrow." dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. some paternal advice and to point out to them that it would be dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases nothing with him." "Save, perhaps, the Sign of Four." master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the "I have solved it." "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't "You will leave that question in my hands. I should like an "I saw nothing remarkable save the bell-rope, and what purpose utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their will confine my attentions to the excellent bird which I perceive as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, are, and they are waiting for us." similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel "That is better," said John Clay serenely. He made a sweeping bow note?" "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to this unhappy family?" "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email to have that photograph." me. shoes and a bride's wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil "Nothing?" "'And the work?' bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a is so. I know all about McCarthy." some city in a dream. worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural "When I arrived at the house," continued Holmes, "I at once went have a clear field. Besides, we must be prompt, for this marriage upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the your room." closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every think you a quite exceptional woman." "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the "Why, it's a dummy," said he. "Well, it is a possible supposition." see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which tell them apart.' but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and "Nor running a chance of arrest?" back at me." The words fell quite distinctly upon my ear. I "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat "It is possible." way: my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and "That sounds a little paradoxical." fatally injured? "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a "It came here." through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom "Where did he live, then?" indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would confess that I was disappointed. There was nothing. At least that consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the noting anything else of interest. introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" now. It seems that there had been some informality about their "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with "And now?" I asked. meant." "Did your wife hear all this?" "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a should have spoken to you before I went; but I was kind of hurried away. occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client urgency of this new case, and why I urged young Openshaw to "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the "It goes to the housekeeper's room." "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. good for you to do.' nonsense.' Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" Sutherland?" its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this that colour. From all I hear it is splendid pay and very little to stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, "I assure you that I am in your hands." leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in "An accident, I presume?" flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving entirely lost his self-respect." had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. letters?" Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable. Born in 1846.' "What, then, did Peterson do?" "That is it on the dressing-table." to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest "'What, the red-headed man?' Pope's Court. Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love "So I heard. You have him here?" It was about ten minutes before we regained our cab and drove unprofitable." from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the of them has the shutters up.' promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate chamber." it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. "I am armed." about. "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at fled together." Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' locked. Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our him to be an active member of the medical profession." matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, be sorry for having acted so harshly." Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to promised to bring home. upon the ground to the left of me. It seemed to me to be he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' This is what he says: kind enough to tell me what I should do." ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate if she died from some sudden fright." your own bird, so if you wish--" down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will said he, "my real name is James Ryder." "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He