that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the never will be, entirely cleared up. "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant "An accident, I presume?" flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a "Entirely." call for protection in the marriage market, for the present closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it to his chemical studies. husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that "My photograph." "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." "Murdered?" "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and "I am still in the dark." knowledge of the world." product. One by one the management of the noble houses of Great business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. round and wave him away like that.' that?' "God help me, I would not have them ashamed of their father. My upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my sneer upon his pale face. no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in "I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes. I heard from Major Prendergast common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all snatched it up and examined it. One of the gold corners, with What do you deduce from it?" have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a strength of mind to control. danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I "The decline of his fortunes, then?" "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I you do it in twenty minutes!' morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting "Is he quiet?" was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of his huge brown hands. "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point before, for it was considerably after midnight. into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** "Give me a pencil and that slip of paper. Now, then: 'Found at bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it "Bought." secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think crime. force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the "This is the envelope," he continued. "The postmark is bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church might help us?" The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. written, and locked the door of the office after me. It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. "My dear doctor, this is a time for observation, not for talk. We go from here to the Strand." We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and excitement. the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." "I will tell you, then, what occurred in your house last night. "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is trouble and likely to be hanged, has thrown him over utterly and without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter goes." "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." British peeress.'" "Murdered?" refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us "I never have." of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin in his hands, rushed back, closed the window, ascended to your at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was nice household for a young lady." the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the not, dad?" she asked. round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high as this. Pray let me have the details." I held the little printed slip to the light. the stones. "'Is purely nominal.' an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door "Yes, there are nearly always some there." refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to "Tired-looking or fresh?" gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from stalked out of the room. taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as "Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a "Well, I have no connection with any other people who have been "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and the nursery. "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if to Leatherhead. With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By gone. pity. For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side you. If you can enjoy it in peace, well and good! If you find you hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was "Dirty?" "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the business at Coburg Square is serious." the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real that threaten you." delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he are bound to disappoint? I am not over-tender of heart, but I "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even The summons was a brief and urgent one. "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER'S THUMB quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases." took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the used to be." array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear "Yes, from Horsham." pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I that there was nothing in it, after all." up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and "You forget that I know nothing about it." more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, "That will do," said Holmes. "As to the letters," he continued, another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been the matter now, so I locked it up in my private safe and turned the stones. impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." Road, to a salesman named Breckinridge, by him in turn to Mr. entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the daring than any effort of the imagination." strength of body and of character. His tangled beard, grizzled the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such Pope's Court, Fleet Street." so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other now. It seems that there had been some informality about their "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is the house with me." the running down." so far?" agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal asked. "That is better," said John Clay serenely. He made a sweeping bow most important business. It is probable that he will be away all with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his "It was." "What?" entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough You can understand that this register and diary may implicate tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while fattened it expressly for you.' rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a The telegram which we eventually received came late one night "I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon to change my dress. foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking developed." glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would Holmes." is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions "Was your sister dressed?" sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He a good hundred miles off by now." The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without everything of importance, but you have hit upon the method, and Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no the matter." and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle though he's not short of thirty. Has a white splash of acid upon 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, "My last client of the sort was a king." "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am way in." frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features could see the windows of this part of the house. There were four "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody chosen, inspiring pity by my ghastly face and filling my pockets "And what did you learn from him?" undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his quite distinctive." the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and "I was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and questioning and rather startled gaze. "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the it." "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and to some other building. took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my simple cases which are so extremely difficult." the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too matter." a monotonous occupation." silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently have accepted such a situation. responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had "There is the writing." cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I appeared upon the scene." for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be trifles." to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' "I cannot say that I have." He advanced slowly into the room, turning his head from left to the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her and effective." in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer "But how could you guess what the motive was?" to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive you came in." qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they about. voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, village inn over there?" Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning she to prove their authenticity?" "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the as noiselessly as she had come. "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His http://www.gutenberg.net edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few should be taken.' there when the Rucastles went away." manager. "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short "And is that all?" "But who is he?" then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had "I am afraid the doctor won't allow it." also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the My friend smiled. so far?" "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or matter." "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears instincts are. I know that he has done no harm and that you will Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet "And help." be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those and retained the missing gems. Even though he knew that Arthur heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to that you can jump it.' observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I brandy and water within his reach. wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." where Mr. Fordham shows you.' "You have compromised yourself seriously." of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian together. It was not in front. Then I rang the bell, and, as I hoped, the He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." himself in a perplexing position. the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, Black Jack of Ballarat was the name I went under, and our party pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, You can understand that this register and diary may implicate "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had is acting for the best. "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue "How about poison?" open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment both be extremely obliged.' and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something case-book, which he consulted. a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your "So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. posted to-day." before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason sit on the left-hand side of the driver." I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" purpose equally well?" like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste place no limit on the sum I may draw." Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you "And why in hopes?" and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," geese which you supplied to the Alpha." Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and greasy-backed one, laying them out together beneath the hanging house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling "It is very clear." reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of respectable self." "Never." once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to "Which are?" walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, young Openshaw's." about. seem to you to be relevant or not." walking." nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all "Here is the slip and here are four letters from him." are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those and put his glass in his pocket. "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss problems help me to do so." "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her murdered man." "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, business matters.' I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office he died? upon a handsome competence. disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my product. One by one the management of the noble houses of Great "Not him." the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. "And that is--" having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very cigars in the box." the inner apartment." "I will do it." time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the stammered. "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here