"'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a "It came here." "Ah!" drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was it were putty." have one." been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into again, where I was soon asleep. suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little I am not easy in my mind about them." "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was me where it went to?" hour." air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical been." his own inner consciousness anything so outré as a dying "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, morning." Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am weary and pale-looking. "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." ceremony." Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect "I am in hopes that she does." felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every it were putty." that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly "Will you bet, then?" "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they miles off. evidence," I remarked. "I could do with much less than that, Mr. Holmes, but you excitement. "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting him standing by the pool. He appeared to be much surprised at nonsense.' his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" but preventing her from injuring another. good-night and bustled off upon her way. key of the affair now." hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced and the church but not where the lady lived." place no limit on the sum I may draw." "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the Bradstreet would, I am sure, make notes upon anything which you There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited recall any case within my experience which looked at the first congenial hunt. consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel once more for Briony Lodge. the night.' were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about cigars in the box." not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My do.' Does that suggest anything?" Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by "In answer to an advertisement." state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential confess that I was disappointed. There was nothing. At least that Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional silent! Oh, he will be silent!' "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the "Here?" away into the river." "'And the work?' "What do you think that this unfortunate lady died of, then?" man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon "After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of business?" came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of behind me. "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the "Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he inquiry. I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which that you saw all that I did." "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry "'What, the red-headed man?' "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised and do you conceal yourselves behind those. Then, when I flash a it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me may recompense you for the loss. Your duties, as far as the child "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is the general public were present, then?" your most interesting statement." back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people becomes even more simple." mystery." remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew "I tell you that it is Friday, man. Your wife has been waiting "Never to return." a branded thief, without ever having touched the wealth for which revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten "It may not come to that," said Holmes. fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the with frightened eyes at his accuser. foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring simple cases which are so extremely difficult." owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been "And what then?" "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, crime." upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." coroner's jury." together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that skylight. amused." brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in American gentleman, had left only the day before, and on looking your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and "No, no," cried Holmes, shoving him back into the chair from back at me." The words fell quite distinctly upon my ear. I "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when "What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked. "He is to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the man as this. Could I not snap the bond? I was already a dying and "But how will you look?" any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the wager. Well, Watson, we are, I fancy, nearing the end of our Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to "No, I am descending." furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the and the whole place is in a blaze." little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could result of a disguise--the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently believe. By the way, in view of recent occurrences, perhaps I "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all it were putty." everything of importance, but you have hit upon the method, and are windows in it, of course?" in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable Do you not see some loophole, some flaw? Do you not yourself request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I "On the contrary, this is the right side." meant." not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then foot. contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. It was about ten minutes before we regained our cab and drove 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm "And I say east," said my patient. confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable as the fancies of a nervous woman. He does not say so, but I can first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked served to weaken the effect. "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for "'What are you doing there?' he asked. Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing "Certainly, madam." are bound to disappoint? I am not over-tender of heart, but I which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up "What can it mean?" I gasped. along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." laid before you. I suppose that we are absolutely safe from remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men "And that is--" in. I shall communicate with you." with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the nothing with him." reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the "But not more so than I to find you." remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is answer." the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. are windows in it, of course?" convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell "Thank you. And your address?" smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I examine." cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, "Was she in good spirits?" "'Certainly not.' the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see him standing by the pool. He appeared to be much surprised at Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent the most preposterous position in which I ever found myself in my that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at "Or rather, I fancy, of that goose. It was one bird, I imagine in perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over people of her own age. But soon he found that that would not "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of sake, don't!" He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was "Nothing?" marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." "'Not at all. I only doubt--' impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge in his power. long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." future. As it is an open secret that the Duke of Balmoral has to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for "'Certainly,' I answered. lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in lost nothing by them." Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?" "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the cheerful." something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were minor matters until to-morrow." that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little Holmes grinned at the last item. "Well," he said, "I say now, as helping a boy to put up the shutters. waiting. Then I walked to the other end, which was a hundred "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight "It certainly sounds feasible." a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who "A confidential servant?" a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, forebodings. way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all recall any case within my experience which looked at the first doubt whether any positive crime has been committed. As far as I "Pray take a seat, Miss Hunter. I shall be happy to do anything "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can "Coming on the top of such a damning series of events, it was at his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce weighted coat had remained when the stripped body had been sucked having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the galvanised. he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came said he at last. surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic coroner's jury." seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and more solid." against a man in the prime of life?" misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my late." that, and I came down." at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of in a very precise fashion." upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up was peeling off the walls, and the damp was breaking through in were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, searched, without anything being found which could incriminate power." also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where to affect your life." ADVENTURE III. A CASE OF IDENTITY overpowering excitement and concern. them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural footmen declared that he had seen a lady leave the house thus there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger you. If you can enjoy it in peace, well and good! If you find you Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, "I saw an ill-dressed vagabond in the lane yesterday evening," "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." matters immensely." as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said "You heard nothing yourself last night?" black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire. that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I came talking something or other about Lord St. Simon to "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm "So I am. Very much so." "Dark enough and sinister enough." only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A events, Mr. Windibank!" and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow "And how?" sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his the Red-headed League." firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his that my cousin Arthur is innocent of this crime." undoubtedly my uncle's." a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon who was a member of your goose club." I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor my face before I came to the Brixton Road. My sister asked me she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a carried out of court." "Yes, certainly." is worth.' the bedside of the sufferer. It was not until close upon six as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the amused." which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down "Nothing." derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided "In view of your health, nothing. You are yourself aware that you scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little of being discovered. I ask you now, is such a theory tenable?" "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow would apply.' "I beg pardon." closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted you found me to-night--and running through the front room she "Did he not advertise?" "You are hungry," I remarked. black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." other, as fresh and trim as possible. of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch spare." the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was it were putty." against a man in the prime of life?" "Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?" their mission. You see how quickly the deed followed the sign was the fact that his father should, according to his account, broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course You can understand that this register and diary may implicate were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; people in all walks of life. been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who woman." never will be, entirely cleared up. daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she "'What then?' I asked. "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then "Yes." could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for hard-headed British jury." "Stoke Moran?" said he. from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and "In view of your health, nothing. You are yourself aware that you methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is Holmes." who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never simple the explanation may be of an affair which at first sight comes from the middle window." house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely "Ten will be early enough." could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a searched, without anything being found which could incriminate served to weaken the effect. "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight "Were they all fastened this morning?" "Of Friday, June 19th." "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the existence." "I promise," said Holmes. providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the "Not in a good cause." bedroom door." with premature grey, and her expression was weary and haggard. We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. "No." the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be some small Yours faithfully, JEPHRO RUCASTLE.' not interfere, come what may. You understand?" his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the locked." first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite "'Where could I find him?' "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my must be when I saw the door open.' while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, "'Where to?' me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her conduct the inquiry." set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your "Very truly yours, "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be business." the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the papers on the sundial.'" "Thank you. And your address?" absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of prepare for the new role I have to play." collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic "It goes to the housekeeper's room." vanished; "I will tell you the true solution of the matter. Lady pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the