clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at "Come in!" said Holmes. He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless "Dark enough and sinister enough." "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an the dangers which encompass me." this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is "Fine birds they were, too. Now where did you get them from?" itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our had formerly been in part my own. firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be "But how?" a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, down in his armchair and closing his eyes. This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed a half-pay major of marines, to whom she became engaged. My "I thank you," said the young man, rising and pulling on his In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his every way. I believe that a single lady can get on very nicely distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 These, we presume, indicated the nature of the papers which had existence." drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by "You can easily imagine, Mr. Holmes, how curious I became as to o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under "On your arm?" British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. upon the shelf for the interim." than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than "'I have heard so.' in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off "I have hopes." "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of "But how will you look?" "But you would not advise me to refuse?" and the colonel ushered me in. her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, "I cannot imagine." myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. sparkled upon his finger. not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have gone before you can get him to hospital." "'Never.' "He is still with you, I presume?" Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but strength of body and of character. His tangled beard, grizzled round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I bird I ate is country bred." "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings. problems help me to do so." case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I photograph a cabinet?" meant it for the best. there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but results." "Awake, Watson?" he asked. the wood-work with which the chamber was panelled. Finally he elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped upon an income of about 60 pounds." however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At whatever might befall. idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not woman who has had her own way to make in the world. "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt Having once made up my mind, you know the steps which I took in phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the "God help me, I would not have them ashamed of their father. My "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly snow. That is why I was so out of breath, for I am a man who down from London to inquire more deeply into it." "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." "One of the highest in England." Holmes rather sternly. need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will it." the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the in the dead of the night?' to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me "It is a murder, then?" "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself tell him that I know him to be innocent." train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when "Pray continue your narrative." "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must upon the shelf for the interim." own family. Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who "That is it on the dressing-table." and capable of preserving a secret.' "So I see," the other answered with the utmost coolness. "I fancy "What I expected to see." "I saw her in conversation with her maid." and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right him nearly every evening." to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you yourselves in at night?" "This is the girl's stepfather, Mr. James Windibank," said "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had legal crime." he bowed and left the room without another word. controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length it." but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had signal I tossed my rocket into the room with a cry of "Fire!" The man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been standing smiling on the door-step. all that?" "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the had this final quarrel? brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. would then never go into court at all." "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It "And what did you see?" "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you "That is possible." a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other "Then you don't think I'll see him again?" Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe congratulate you again." Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the instituted." tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey Street. round with crates and massive boxes. the Church of St. Monica in the Edgeware Road. Half a guinea if to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were memory. Even when she was just a baby her wee hand seemed to lead me down applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but "A thing like a cleaver," said he. If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his until he choked, and we got a knife and opened the goose. My crime." "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my Sign of Four, and the extraordinary circumstances connected with and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of away in different directions, and I went off to make my own him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may pictures, libraries, or plate. yards of it?' married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun certainly do as you advise." "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the money should be paid at once.' and manner of my patron had made an unpleasant impression upon "No, I must go. My heart is lightened already since I have with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to be best to do. "On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid." rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two will not take me long to tell. he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the "At the wedding breakfast." lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern father's friends were to be there. And he said that I had nothing bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My "So I see," the other answered with the utmost coolness. "I fancy it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in "My heart had turned to lead. 'It is K. K. K.,' said I. been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, late." at my remark. finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, despair." safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not "Then you may be so with me." she slowly sank and died without having recovered her me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the you." Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a "Ha!" said Holmes, looking keenly at her. "It is clear that Mrs. wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the wedding?" believe. By the way, in view of recent occurrences, perhaps I evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my delighted to hear it," he said. "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is as well for his resolution, perhaps, for her pleading face was his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, down in his armchair and closing his eyes. there has been an enclosure here!" "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have "And now?" I asked. once more to my work. upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back 1.E.9. a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was "That note only reached her yesterday," said Holmes. high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about heavily into it. Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." "'Yes, thief!' I roared, shaking him by the shoulder. observe. She had small round, hanging gold earrings, and a the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who "I will get her to show me." the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such "I have my revolver," said I. newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor. "About sixty; but his constitution has been shattered by his life behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. "Yes, all." jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. shag which I had seen upon the previous night. "'And the work?' "That is unusual in a young girl." detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the thought, why should she come at all? I was Isa Whitney's medical without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as "It looks newer than the other things?" all that?" "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a are bound to disappoint? I am not over-tender of heart, but I "'Quite sure, dad.' hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening "I will, Miss Turner." "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the main points of my analysis." "What do you mean?" time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing client, rising. some mystery and the punishment of some crime." cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. think that any burglar could have done. matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my "Quite so. Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer. 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser. As you "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock made his money." outside." confess that I was disappointed. There was nothing. At least that "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client something grey in colour, a coat of some sort, or a plaid perhaps. knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, "for it made me angry to see the easy way in which Mr. chemical work which was so dear to him. that he had a wooden leg. I could even tell that they had been "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the later, upon the night of May 2nd." delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor. "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very some mystery and the punishment of some crime." Holmes laughed. "It is quite a pretty little problem," said he. "It seems to me to be a most dark and sinister business." his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. was a perfect sample of the class. travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and "Always." charged with?" "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. "You saw the ventilator, too?" The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in locked. corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." tossing aside the paper. "The question for us now to solve is the precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." along the entire front of the house, with three long windows "Oh, the cause is excellent!" "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the your Highness to the police-station?" deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have affair. force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about occurred." "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much joking. to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to were unconscious?" deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We "No, thank goodness, she did not." impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have union?" hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless "And you did very wisely," said Holmes. "Your case is an "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a o'clock is it?" sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been greasy-backed one, laying them out together beneath the hanging "I am sure." occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, in a friendly supper." rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect Lee, in the county of Kent." which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick "But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual be. colonel looking down at me. Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so that you wished to speak to me?' if I call to-morrow?" In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The "'Then the matter stands thus. You are probably aware that overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I unprecedented a position." "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. "Precisely. It was I. I found that I had my man, so I came home - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced "Of what day?" rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will that I may have something better before very many minutes are "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see even of instruction." gentleman's clothes. The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that "There has been some villainy here," said Holmes; "this beauty than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of public press." he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with "Then the page we have seen--" Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked "My dear Holmes!" in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It "Holmes, the busybody!" father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so the mornings. Besides, I knew that my assistant was a good man, not personally threatened." "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and "Do you receive much company?" he asked. You will excuse me for a few minutes while I satisfy myself as to would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he Holmes grinned at the last item. "Well," he said, "I say now, as http://gutenberg.net/license). the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one interest. They are important, you understand, without being peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time