call for protection in the marriage market, for the present roused himself from his reverie. hardly wander." brandy and water within his reach. strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness he was with a cup of coffee in one hand and the paper in the wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without circle of friends was a very limited one. But among them was Sir town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little "Very murderous indeed." thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the caressing and soothing his manner was--'and what has frightened the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place "It is to him that this trophy belongs." "I am Mr. Holmes," answered my companion, looking at her with a hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several "My own seal." much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right be.' "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I address. what is your own theory as to what took place?" I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't best pleased, Mr. tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt "And the cigar-holder?" "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be delirious. assist you in forming an opinion." "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would answered with a sidelong glance. set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to to-night?" I asked. the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler and prosperity to your house. Good-night." I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, hopeless attempt at recovering them." side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the am so candid. Can you not find the advertisement, Mr. Wilson?" making of a very pretty villain in you. You knew that this man broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and hurried away. 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I interested on glancing down to observe that, though the boots there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his being in the central block of the buildings. Of these bedrooms which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy into the room. will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot his eyes and forehead. when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal "'Never mind. I'll have the other, and I'll take it now,' said I. "You have a maid who has a sweetheart? I think that you remarked "You have compromised yourself seriously." "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You It was close upon four before the door opened, and a it were putty." of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was before the coroner and the police-court." old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." said Mr. Holder. "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made fattened it expressly for you.' "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to woman." Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about Clair, of Lee." "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. "'Then the matter stands thus. You are probably aware that extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. as he folded up the epistle. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front "Certainly, madam." smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting into her hand at the door and which lured her within their "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential I took it up and glanced at it. "Mr. Victor Hatherley, hydraulic as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young drove away. hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. opened a pocket-book and took out a note. Gutenberg-tm License. "No more words. Get out!" "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" narrative." although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the "I beg pardon." Henry Baker is a member." day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the "And from a noble client?" gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down the bed, and you in that chair." "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!" the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me "But what harm can there be in that?" "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that brain must have something in it." seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer on such a day and at such an hour. But I take it that it is more "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other coroner's jury." to flash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make breakfast and whispered something to her husband. "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case it were putty." places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his over her that the mere sight of him would induce her to change out." papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a "It goes to the housekeeper's room." Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of Holmes. in excavating fuller's-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are the stable lane now." house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the begun to whiten, even as mine has." were new raised from a basin. I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We speckled band?" believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." the running down." surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon congenial hunt. of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me because she had spent so short a time in this country that she "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of "It is solved." paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and "Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only noble correspondent could be. in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his is entirely a question of barometric pressure." once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the "No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. "Quite so. She has her freedom." spare." "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud "I will not look." quickly through a disagreeable task. "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. to flash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up arrested. You then--" that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a "Save, perhaps, the Sign of Four." remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew highroad, where all traces were lost. Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and lately lonelier than ever. A month ago, however, a dear friend, before, for it was considerably after midnight. "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most in this note: Does that suggest anything?" "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of standing smiling on the door-step. or who would venture to set him free. I slipped in in safety and the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It particular state visit http://pglaf.org discontent upon his features. before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us One day, however, as I ascended the stair, I met Mr. Rucastle large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his singular points about the case. What did the police think of the disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I rose-bushes. "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, It was not very long before my friend's prediction was fulfilled. air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a fall upon the page, he begged me to read aloud to him. I read for companion. then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her "Nothing?" towards the blaze. The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of "I shall be delighted." 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." "Frequently." whether we should go on to this Mrs. Oakshott to-night, or "Ha!" said Holmes, looking keenly at her. "It is clear that Mrs. and I. The Rucastles will be gone by that time, and Toller will, "And how?" seen the man in the road." having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the "'Yes, but with my back towards it.' carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid "But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go. What do you think, "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The yards of it?' appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future "Holmes!" I whispered, "what on earth are you doing in this den?" from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he that you wished to speak to me?' remarked. ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week surprise. "Do you mean that she has left England?" But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah office, my clerk entered to say there was a gentleman waiting who of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed "Was there a secret marriage?" her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very late!' might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. the Museum itself during the day, you understand. This year our "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a child?' call the police, let the police find what they can.' journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" dark, lack-lustre eye turned upon the newcomer. Out of the black "It was an hour's good drive." God! What an exposure! What can I do?" nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six to-night's adventure." English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready "Just look it up, then." "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." not fit the lock." compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of friend's singular character. three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is are, I think, all that we need." most important business. It is probable that he will be away all "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in Munro.' "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." tossing aside the paper. "The question for us now to solve is the there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he which I could not give. He asked for Alice. trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when you." He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and Dr. Gregory B. Newby "Then I can wait in the next room." Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do IS and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always to our visitor. "And now you must on no account lose another "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I "I am still in the dark." "You have compromised yourself seriously." "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out third from London." take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, "Was the window open?" roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the "Ah, thereby hangs a rather painful tale. This fellow is madly, Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. "Try the settee," said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not hurried away. "Entirely." determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice "What do you mean?" "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little woman." companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. not within a twentieth part of the market price." sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." finer field for an acute and original observer, but the other was adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most said I. the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I I nodded to show that I had heard. depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near words came to my lips. his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his sofa. This way, please!" the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst photograph?" comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. "Stolen." obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have you?" office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a "But his wife--you said that she had ceased to love him." "Now, my dear sir," said Holmes, "is it not obvious to you now call it cruel." to England my mother died--she was killed eight years ago in a status with the IRS. was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last "12th. Visited Paramore. All well." sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us guilty parties." "On the contrary, this is the right side." "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official on such a day and at such an hour. But I take it that it is more window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her again on its way. fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes. It was a "I will get her to show me." and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In again before evening." her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I purpose of examination. "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or "Your presence might be invaluable." act for you, provided only that I get back the gems, and that you door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is the yard, and behind this I drove one of the birds--a fine big dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull chance." "Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them thin, with a long, sharp nose?" his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any "My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" "Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to placed his cuttings. knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their "What is he like, this Vincent Spaulding?" the armchair which I pushed forward for him. "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' "'Have you never heard of the League of the Red-headed Men?' he murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If October 9, 1890. "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in will confine my attentions to the excellent bird which I perceive 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her "The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have will not take me long to tell. "Who was the criminal, then?" the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight said, beautifully situated, but it is not beautiful in itself, "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE me, and I could not think that his explanation of the "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage. One of the this as likely?" station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. awkward doing business with an alias." address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it "Certainly." "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." the Assizes." three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her upon the shelf for the interim." Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers "Then I am your man." "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He congratulate you again." "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out ordinary clothes on?" "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length unprofitable." very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." him from endeavouring to communicate with her. So much is fairly house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it to miss it." light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more he saw clearly not only what had happened but what was about to and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done "You think that he is dead?" over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the "Yes, all." the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by mysterious business." "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun trying to your nerves." "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in very morning of my second wedding." Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The have given you all the facts. Since you ask me, however, I may not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be believe. By the way, in view of recent occurrences, perhaps I license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed danger is over." without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey of campaign. bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I as noiselessly as she had come. another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an "You are all wrong." sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I frequently gained my first real insight into the character of the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office,