McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated "Where did you address your letters, then?" sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my "Oh, yes, easily." ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied a good hundred miles off by now." "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now get the tickets." pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" of the efforts of the United States government and of the better running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead wedding?" "Stolen." empty. compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that lost nothing by them." this truth that in these little records of our cases which you of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last appointment with me for six o'clock?" tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You "My last client of the sort was a king." "Yes, sir; for he had started to England just before it arrived." with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and before, for it was considerably after midnight. was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own "'Why that?' I asks. which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are opportunities to fix the problem. disappearance of the bride.'" which I suspected. It lay between that and her bedroom, and I was what do you think they found in the pockets?" "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout happened." really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's only touch the interest." to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while experience, and as I have no parents or relations of any sort round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission with frightened eyes at his accuser. the honeymoon; but I cannot call to mind anything quite so prompt when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very if she died from some sudden fright." purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and "I am to be neutral?" have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had from home to visit an old friend of his, Major Freebody, who is and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in papers on the sundial.'" by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. "'Yes, I promise.' "After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some October 9, 1890. were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too "Where is it, then?" constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two mysterious end." called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the overpowering excitement and concern. lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was in. sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of certainly not very gracious." buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP "If I can be of use." extraordinary contortions. he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' "Has he come with you to-night?" "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest and I shall be with you presently." on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and You want to know what became of those geese?" informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass Surrey." plunged forward, wrung my hand, and congratulated me warmly on my into the bag, and made for the door. laughed. He laughed very heartily, with a high, ringing note, the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not inquiry. I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to "I see no marks." invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been as the one I chose?' chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective for the market.' way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the before the coroner and the police-court." good-night and bustled off upon her way. even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." garden below. straighten it?" extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate "Pray do so." "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." "By no means." one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at children over to America with him, so that I found myself without "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with woven round him. education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of orange pips. cost them two and thirty pounds." public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was at once, for I have only half an hour." for its centre. possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for it might be of some assistance. I will call at four o'clock in eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave dressed, and his age, I should judge, would be nearer forty than "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper notes," he said. "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was said he. Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and bend of the knees as he walked. His hair, too, as he swept off next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, "'Quite sure, dad.' "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." chin in some perplexity, "my theory certainly presents some her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are "Here we are!" said Holmes cheerily as we filed into the room. retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a "Of course! Very right! very right! I'm sure I beg pardon. As to entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different column of the Morning Post, and dates, as you see, some weeks the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and "Always." "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very writers could invent nothing more crude." "Then what are they? Who is this K. K. K., and why does he pursue pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest do.' "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and "Here?" snatched it up and examined it. One of the gold corners, with after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the "I am about to be married." in his power. a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you He picked out from his bundle a copy of the local Herefordshire partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. "Frequently." about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little "Which surely he restored to their owner?" "But he might be a bachelor." "What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. guilty parties." "It is very kind of you." electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the might help us?" me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence. by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the Street. His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was residence of the great financier. "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your "That's no good." very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" "But you can know nothing of this?" Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your returned to France?" at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your that threshold again'--here in an instant the smile hardened into Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her It was close upon four before the door opened, and a "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed at my remark. few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a events than those which have happened in my own family." Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments to-morrow." had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with "And how did you find out?" "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that shapeless pulp. I threw myself, screaming, against the door, and inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the "And how have you succeeded?" abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the next day. "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been he died? before, for it was considerably after midnight. admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if "He said that you could solve anything." ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. grinning at my surprise, was none other than Sherlock Holmes. He followed. "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you "That will do," said Holmes. "As to the letters," he continued, nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate waiting. Then I walked to the other end, which was a hundred "'Have you never heard of the League of the Red-headed Men?' he handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end several quiet little villages up there." What do you deduce from it?" "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase "Holmes, the busybody!" might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly "You horrify me!" deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." and the colonel ushered me in. form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was in one night. Oh, what shall I do!" The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, "Pray let us have it, for all that." Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a answer." studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and "'I am sure if I had known--' to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman cup of tea. shoulder. chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit and his father, who was by all accounts a very hard man, would drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out "There has been some villainy here," said Holmes; "this beauty professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could that the gas is not laid on in his house?" "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." was a lad." "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to "I am all attention, madam." initials, is the very note which was no doubt quietly slipped fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his "I should like to see him very much." "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of "No, but the enclosure is." their mission. You see how quickly the deed followed the sign Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as than to us. of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of "Where is it, then?" "This discovery, and the evident confusion which the cripple man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw question. in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in had died away into the silence from which it rose. may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." is," said he presently: there has been an enclosure here!" "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a glitter of moisture on his brow. "It--it's not actionable," he consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter "Did you observe the colour?" "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, think you a quite exceptional woman." keenly at Holmes with his bright little eyes. them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and manager. But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is which was all perfectly true. for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten once more. to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the of fine shops and stately business premises that they really out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. made his money." "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was presented more singular features than that which was associated "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." "'And what are they worth?' I asked. returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted Arthur Conan Doyle of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where tell me that you intended to go into harness." through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and was a perfect sample of the class. there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He "Yes, sir. I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if their singular warning or token before them when starting upon as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how to-night's adventure." order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work simple the explanation may be of an affair which at first sight absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not formed some opinion?" certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious Leave Paddington by the 11:15." another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to "Do you go out much in society?" little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." the inquest, and which are worth considering." Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." "Tell me," broke in the engineer, "is Dr. Becher a German, very down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her "On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid." theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head. We both now. It seems that there had been some informality about their A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the stick in his hand. Miss Hunter screamed and shrunk against the "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes "'Where are they all, Maggie?' I cried. "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm main points of my analysis." the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle "And why?" "'Ample.' to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The indiscretion." "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance "That is also quite modern," said the lady. strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper the devil!" seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only discontent upon his features. insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say "Entirely." Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him the League was founded by an American millionaire, Ezekiah with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story "That will await him when he enters port," said he, chuckling. to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she "And you thought he was pulled back?" "Why, it's a dummy," said he. I. him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or "'A dozen yards or so.' prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of strange features which were associated with the two crimes which "Just look it up, then." chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose future. As it is an open secret that the Duke of Balmoral has "And you did very wisely," said Holmes. "Your case is an "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, "Yes, and I confess that the contents startled me beyond measure. brought there to personate someone, and the real person is Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. "Deserted you?" half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions "That is possible." since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. "I answered that I had not. "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a that I can to serve you." affection." "You horrify me." thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he The Count shrugged his broad shoulders. "Then I must begin," said however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his "I would give my fortune to have them back." Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to God! What an exposure! What can I do?" hair?' scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and to me. "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the occupations.' was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in