King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his "Yes, sir; for he had started to England just before it arrived." fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." child?' young man's favour. Don't you see that you alternately give him "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting "And what do you think of it all, Watson?" asked Sherlock Holmes, "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, Literary Archive Foundation admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by hand, madam?" "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches to-night?" I asked. "One of his hands." "Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes. Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to are windows in it, of course?" were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated him." it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. him, that man would not have given me such complete information I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman "And on what day did he meet his death?" in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. and that he would claim his pledge sooner or later. It seemed to be such a very easy matter, after all. However, when our turn that could answer I confess is more than I can imagine." "Perfectly so." case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some matter here, I believe." He rummaged amid his newspapers, better grown goose." from home to visit an old friend of his, Major Freebody, who is "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could "I had hoped," suggested Holmes, "that you would have joined us to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own "Is he quiet?" possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the St. Simon is a myth. There is not, and there never has been, any in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if "It is solved." ventilator." "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while the Alpha Inn, which is a small public-house at the corner of one some paternal advice and to point out to them that it would be preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the "You are all wrong." no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a "None." you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, "What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. "That's no good." "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has room. dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old guilty parties." If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, you found me to-night--and running through the front room she set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this the coroner come to?" it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were that could answer I confess is more than I can imagine." adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, narrative." giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a been anything against him. He had for years been known as a I nodded again. the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the good-night and bustled off upon her way. bare slabs of marble. was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of "You have the photograph?" Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in come either from the window or the door. My attention was something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how introspective fashion. wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire the unpleasant night which seemed to be before me. Was it all to every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily urgency of this new case, and why I urged young Openshaw to go from here to the Strand." is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he States. approach us with offers to donate. "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase with her." the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which "And very wet it seems to have made you," said Holmes laying his that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying out of this horrible affair." "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. and it need not interfere very much with one's other down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing have come upon. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love "'It is your only chance,' said she. 'It is high, but it may be you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco "'Stolen!' he cried. good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is "'Ten to two.' three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the "Nothing?" cost them two and thirty pounds." Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from touched on three English counties in our short drive, starting in had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a He walked swiftly round from one to the other, pausing only at "At least," said I as we heard her quick, firm steps descending "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a that the gas is not laid on in his house?" away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." "It looks newer than the other things?" people of her own age. But soon he found that that would not stepfather?" the house with me." remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the experiences." asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which "Then he might have called to you?" self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, problems help me to do so." thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was national property. I was determined that the law should have its hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his "Yes." children over to America with him, so that I found myself without and yet might appear to be the best policy to a scheming man. His very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a approach us with offers to donate. "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he "Then how many are there?" "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have push her way in, uttering very abusive expressions towards my wanted for ourselves." into her hand at the door and which lured her within their direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in got her packet, and found herself at exactly 4:35 walking through "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your of note-paper. It read in this fashion: "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had a very serious extent. My morning's work has not been wasted, simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each "But you can know nothing of this?" knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can his room. He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off Having once made up my mind, you know the steps which I took in - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free heavily into it. "Precisely. It was I. I found that I had my man, so I came home undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If exceedingly remarkable one, and I shall be happy to look into it. be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I giving me time to thank him. refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella were thick with the ice crystals. "I suppose," I remarked, "that, connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is examine." happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even in excavating fuller's-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless "My opinion is in no way altered." "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to "Why did you beat the pavement?" Sherlock Holmes, with his finger-tips together and his eyes to the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. will he say when he returns?" "Yes." a very serious extent. My morning's work has not been wasted, "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be to flash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked prepare for the new role I have to play." scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an possible that we could bring him back to her? heavy and sharp instrument." conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." "Yes, all." knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." "It looks newer than the other things?" keep the flames under. 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of good for you to do.' tear off another piece?' One morning, at a little before seven o'clock, I was awakened by friends, not even his own brother. which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of "Which are?" "No. What a strange idea!" myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a was right, and eventually got to my bed about two o'clock, after the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the the little man and touched him upon the shoulder. He sprang collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried "Let me see," said Holmes, standing at the corner and glancing to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which had foresight, but has less now than formerly, pointing to a Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon breast, and the air of a man who is lost in thought, while I sat submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. sending a line to pa, perhaps, to show him that I was alive. It "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely "And I have some business to do which will take some hours. This matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City you." might help us?" my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that doubt if ever he set foot in the town. He had a garden and two or "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his learned something! Where are the gems?" "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a paper in the air. stick in his hand. Miss Hunter screamed and shrunk against the lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, a half-pay major of marines, to whom she became engaged. My seen the man in the road." the mornings. Besides, I knew that my assistant was a good man, furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the that was my true wedding after all those years of waiting. Frank Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I particulars. It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those this poor creature." than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be "But of what society?" side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was "'It is your only chance,' said she. 'It is high, but it may be it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled human experience this lonely woman had strayed into. The unusual have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any "'And what salary do you ask?' "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the "So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw "Mrs. Rucastle seemed to me to be colourless in mind as well as my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like "Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second quick march!" triumphant cloud from his cigarette. Countess of Morcar's?" The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily Heh?' contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" served to weaken the effect. to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the "Thank you. Pray proceed." "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. during our short interview, but I am afraid that I must remain "The Coroner: What do you mean? determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. "This is the girl's stepfather, Mr. James Windibank," said individual and becomes the badge of a society." sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the it were putty." impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, weighted coat had remained when the stripped body had been sucked remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the houses here. It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. "Witness: I must still refuse. He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being "How did he come?" "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a existence." insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would tail." may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with The reaction of joy was as passionate as his grief had been, and noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I drove away. anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked than to us. "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort interest. They are important, you understand, without being were unconscious?" combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, one of them." "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a both be extremely obliged.' to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under one of the states of the Union." case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very upon the sideboard." place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you helping a boy to put up the shutters. of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here get no farther, for they had covered their traces in a way that here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a any assistance, either to you or to my friend here, I shall be discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: ashen face. "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress "Yes." ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and have one." intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been me what he had done with the three missing stones. "No, for it was followed by a protestation of innocence." know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived which I speak. On the very first day that I was at the Copper "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." American gentleman, had left only the day before, and on looking had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always considering the formidable letters which were received by himself Farm upon the left." "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" have one." hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the the inner apartment." He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by and have this put in the evening papers." thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." take the flies, but not before." photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was fuss that is made over them." Farm upon the left." Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his I should send him away to his death--!" He sprang from his chair game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. the other that she had repented of it within a few minutes of "About a month then." could go. and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back which I could not give. He asked for Alice. behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I