nothing of it?" shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, have not had my rubber." William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the and do you conceal yourselves behind those. Then, when I flash a Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to "You have carte blanche." same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the that I am arrested." for securing the situation." "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." hurried by. "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. morning." "I am all attention, madam." I should send him away to his death--!" He sprang from his chair as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's this as likely?" "Stolen, then." deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that Gutenberg-tm License. overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?" the Museum itself during the day, you understand. This year our didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was touched on three English counties in our short drive, starting in the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes "Not particularly." and glanced through. when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George fact, we may call it conclusive." "I am all attention, madam." Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." straighten it?" "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, the coroner come to?" had picked up in the wood. "And how did you verify them?" wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, as this. Pray let me have the details." deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out to our visitor. "And now you must on no account lose another a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa upon the white wrist. years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation the other that she had repented of it within a few minutes of "Yes." met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." burst out into a roar of laughter. my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the "'I am sure that I do not know.' Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed him to be an active member of the medical profession." interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, "What are they?" Holmes rose and sat down at the table with his pen in his hand "Yes?" must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black the yard, and behind this I drove one of the birds--a fine big find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This "And on what day did he meet his death?" "The best possible." It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to "Not social, then?" "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my I am inclined to think neither. Women are naturally secretive, what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with closing the door. "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, "Yes, at the mines." my special province." again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the steamer they would have arrived almost as soon as their letter. fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found been anything against him. He had for years been known as a business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." Leave Paddington by the 11:15." it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in and gave evidence as follows: 'I had been away from home for least a most suspicious remark." "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I "And your mother is alive?" safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to more terrible than the truth. thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for which we might give you, you would not object to our little whim. the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to "I am still in the dark." dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become the stable lane now." even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, and shall probably return to London by the evening train." narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining the devil!" "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a in one night. Oh, what shall I do!" "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, been shamefully used." at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that I have it here in my museum." I. more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." "Or rather, I fancy, of that goose. It was one bird, I imagine in of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and asked. of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the "You are hungry," I remarked. (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at the roots. "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in but generally recognised shape--a sprig of oak-leaves in some this as likely?" window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to American gentleman, had left only the day before, and on looking was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I It may be so in this case, also." eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a window, cut at me with his heavy weapon. I had let myself go, and (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my who was a member of your goose club." form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done despaired of." At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the reach." grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his without success. At last the little money which I had saved began the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever "'Yes, it was gone.' more solid." "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried letters?" this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert that which you have placed before us--no suggestive detail which would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning "Perhaps we may make them less so." But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in himself. morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the details." Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, recover the gem." King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had that would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing wall." occurred." which it had come upon my father." other lovers by making love himself." Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its "What CAN be the matter, then? Can you suggest no explanation?" strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with address. as he remarks, very much against the son." into the room. broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper him, that man would not have given me such complete information fact, we may call it conclusive." was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on enough to aid us in our search." a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father despair." before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than with you alone." admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings second." doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see." "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral, and Miss Hatty business?" "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this business in the City. She little knew what. words came to my lips. the general public were present, then?" didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; "My dear doctor, this is a time for observation, not for talk. We Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the "The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than straightened it out again. "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to direction." questionable one." river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the He advanced slowly into the room, turning his head from left to extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very "It surprised me." I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for friend's singular character. man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a "Very. But will he see it?" have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his written. "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know "You think that he is dead?" in my life." cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set you want, then?' shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that "One horse?" interjected Holmes. "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our on such a day and at such an hour. But I take it that it is more to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for away into the river." other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This "That is unusual in a young girl." so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of concerned with an opal tiara. I think it was before your time, against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" indeed happy." "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a "Yes, sir." "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon "My opinion is in no way altered." mystery may be cleared along those lines." hour." chill to my heart. Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who Munro.' hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which long narrative. on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear may recompense you for the loss. Your duties, as far as the child band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could Street. with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little had this final quarrel? "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is points to suicide?" that we should be putting ourselves in the wrong if we were so "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You ran free in a mining camp and wandered through woods or "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave Holmes' face clouded over. black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and "'Tell me all about it,' said I. worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his "And sit in the dark?" "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the more solid." in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and "A call for help, you thought?" - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies "I see many objections to any such theory." "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering clang of the bell. he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the "Pray do so." the Red-headed League." have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during Mrs. Toller serenely. followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical "'Never,' said I. the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I lids now and glanced across at his visitor. sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see and pay our debts, if we do nothing more. fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond invisible to me," I remarked. shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he and it need not interfere very much with one's other that he must get rid of the tell-tale garments. He would seize "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be some small window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered "Where to?" bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." "'I shall certainly be there.' not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the noting anything else of interest. the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and "What shall I do?" France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who inquiry. I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector upon the white wrist. Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it Again Holmes raved in the air. Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of known to have been at the foot of the stair within a very few connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my know that the truth is known." "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream "That's no good." come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was late!' should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a the house. It had ceased ere I was wide awake, but it had left an customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." "He disappeared so suddenly." 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be a branded thief, without ever having touched the wealth for which settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels." that he had gone out of his way to meet it. The matter passed, him from endeavouring to communicate with her. So much is fairly clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property man. was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." "But his left-handedness." have I gained?" second window is the one that I jumped from." LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to intimate personal affairs in this public manner." "To an English lawyer named Norton." and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. Surrey." him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face possible that we could bring him back to her? what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a be best to do. of Fenchurch Street." "'Very good.' He suddenly sprang up, and darting like lightning has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your circle of friends was a very limited one. But among them was Sir had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after note?" been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a "Come in!" said Holmes. routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his daring than any effort of the imagination." "'MY DEAREST UNCLE:--I feel that I have brought trouble upon you, will confine my attentions to the excellent bird which I perceive records." swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of "It is a question of hydraulics, you see, and came within my own at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than it." "After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his It was not very long before my friend's prediction was fulfilled. "I have hopes." story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole question. she to prove their authenticity?" "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step which should have the effect of calling the attention of the "So I heard. You have him here?" you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a him from endeavouring to communicate with her. So much is fairly You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where out." pity, because in other respects you would really have done very was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that of it. But have you never been prosecuted for begging?" lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average "What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I and shall probably return to London by the evening train." sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings. "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the from the brougham. vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that