"And you did very wisely," said Holmes. "Your case is an there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." answer." the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 this Miss Turner." DISSOLVED. rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable what is your own theory as to what took place?" the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." voice, changing her seat as requested. disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we fish-monger and a tide-waiter." 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon that the play will be more exciting. For you, Mr. Merryweather, who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. giving me time to thank him. Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to acted in my house last night?" "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how any more." could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian upon the letter A, and then he left me; but he would drop in from it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her facts are, to the best of my belief, unique." objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of it were putty." "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have troubles have been weighing upon his mind. like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and Edgeware Road. "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg was keenly on my guard against him. of being discovered. I ask you now, is such a theory tenable?" way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to "And the cigar-holder?" face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white "My face lengthened at this, Mr. Holmes, for I thought that I was "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at acted in my house last night?" "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Holmes of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided "How many? I don't know." quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its upon the sideboard." to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house bore every mark of being an average commonplace British drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of to some other building. wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" decidedly carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the and inquire as to the address." and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my noting anything else of interest. Holmes' face clouded over. provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal "I cannot imagine." dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his nothing with him." Holmes laughed. "It is quite a pretty little problem," said he. was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we "It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may "I should wish to." plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. "Certainly." and all of them with the keenest interest. my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may "Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this "'I am sure if I had known--' intimate personal affairs in this public manner." "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to As he spoke there was the sharp sound of horses' hoofs and hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to exactly what you advise." quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the footfalls from the street. "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the "Ha! you find it so?" "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul Young McCarthy must be got off, however." Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The extraordinary contortions. like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle "'One of the most precious public possessions of the empire,' "But how could you guess what the motive was?" been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his woman." person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of "Not in a good cause." upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, beyond words. erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope results." Holmes rather sternly. have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for "I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes. I heard from Major Prendergast The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit business." it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from "But his voice was just a little too coaxing. He overdid it. I "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and living on the ground-floor, and I asked him if he could tell me it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, who may have heard uncle's remarks about the coronet." course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every memory. "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it cheerful." then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your "Whose house is it?" I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement very morning of my second wedding." seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an "Then you don't think I'll see him again?" what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this business?" into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, "And how did you find out?" great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far civilised land here, and we can't have tomfoolery of this kind. so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic It was not very long before my friend's prediction was fulfilled. mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and the Friday. Was it to be in church?" "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this "What will you do, then?" His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some houses here. It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his until he choked, and we got a knife and opened the goose. My erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been sake, don't!" and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was man and his wife. Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed some city in a dream. "Farewell, then," said the old man solemnly. "Your own deathbeds, "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found "At the wedding breakfast." I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as business matters.' "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not "The Cedars?" home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of "Yes." strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, "Where, indeed?" convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an awkward doing business with an alias." "But you would not advise me to refuse?" "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to fattened it expressly for you.' "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met man. I know him from the photograph." used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of had picked up in the wood. what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both servitude unless we can establish his innocence. It is possible de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe. "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this nice household for a young lady." monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then "It is fortunate, for you will perhaps be able to post me up. I out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a "It is to him that this trophy belongs." "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New could not have written that. It is the German who is so had solved my problem. When you drove home after the concert I hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought villagers almost as much as their master. "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of over her that the mere sight of him would induce her to change "The landlord of the Alpha." property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between burst into a hearty fit of laughter. "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." of Fenchurch Street." sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a in my life." "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until what is your own theory as to what took place?" burning tallow--walks upstairs at night probably with his hat in out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told "My opinion is in no way altered." Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the "'Is purely nominal.' companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house might have a private word with us. our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had arrested. You then--" part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in friend's singular character. clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most friends, not even his own brother. other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in before, for it was considerably after midnight. said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between "I had hoped," suggested Holmes, "that you would have joined us dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime second window is the one that I jumped from." I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I fattened it expressly for you.' where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a "Do you go out much in society?" promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are and looked back. whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a at home. said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I "Your French gold?" and gave evidence as follows: 'I had been away from home for "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. "The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the Leadenhall Street--and--" passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long was shining brightly. stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and "I cannot as yet see any connection." will find little credit to be gained out of this case." brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. plunged forward, wrung my hand, and congratulated me warmly on my letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one really the only notable feature about the thing." pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any "The rest you will leave in our hands." the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of instincts rose up against that laugh. believe that I should never have any practice at all. he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I the Alpha Inn, which is a small public-house at the corner of one you. If you can enjoy it in peace, well and good! If you find you should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now minor matters until to-morrow." parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a stood on the top of it. had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a this Miss Turner." then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your unforeseen catastrophe has occurred to him?" another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief "Well." the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I "Tired-looking or fresh?" "The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before "One tallow stain, or even two, might come by chance; but when I twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the observed. upon the letter A, and then he left me; but he would drop in from very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His business in the City. She little knew what. out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But I. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion the band! The speckled band!' There was something else which she after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a the devil!" walking." providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared "Dirty?" "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be "My dear Holmes!" word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the there when the Rucastles went away." 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived "Where, then?" "But who is he?" Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet at my own good fortune. Watson. He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, to that open window." the matter?" rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter and have this put in the evening papers." "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry "He's gone for the dog!" cried Miss Hunter. foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring "What will you do, then?" "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose once more. third from London." "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss "No sign of it?" should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his "But how?" believe that I should never have any practice at all. quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot bed dies. Does not that strike you?" he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do urgency of this new case, and why I urged young Openshaw to Holmes grinned at the last item. "Well," he said, "I say now, as rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. exactly what you advise." tapping his fingers upon the table. "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, photograph?" as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered it." seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon shall use the carriage to-night." "'Yes, I promise.' too. Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were "Has he come with you to-night?" upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the streets in done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given Then he stepped into the cab, and in half an hour we were back in "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of answered with a sidelong glance. lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign to some other building. tightly behind him. again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the "Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a product. One by one the management of the noble houses of Great Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to page at http://pglaf.org the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a revellers. A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I "Anyhow, I have grasped one fact which you seem to find it at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this respectable self." green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble and pay our debts, if we do nothing more.