"Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking Cross for the Continent." not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him "Dirty?" out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded things are very often connected not with the larger but with the "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the "And what do you think of it all, Watson?" asked Sherlock Holmes, down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than either. It's hard to say his age. I should not wish a smarter annoyance, but no jest. hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their "How often?" "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this "And for present expenses?" long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to "Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?" "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King conclusions. glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my said I. other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the conclusions. though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, tell me that you intended to go into harness." with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in "We must have a cab." It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to posted to-day." "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, as noiselessly as she had come. about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt "But how will you look?" me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the bed dies. Does not that strike you?" Street. as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid "My own seal." hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would "What do you make of that, Watson?" and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow details should find their way into the papers. Inspector "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had "It was a confession," I ejaculated. nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are and all of them with the keenest interest. heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." over here." appeal." unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should relief. the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect unprecedented a position." "Yes." aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything Suddenly a door opened at the other end of the passage, and a most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." "You have done wisely," said my friend. "But have you told me Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a if she died from some sudden fright." "'Which dealer's?' former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his "'In my own bureau.' ordinary clothes on?" "Not the Countess of Morcar's blue carbuncle!" I ejaculated. "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just "'On the contrary,' said I, 'I opened the door myself because I balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so the word 'band,' which was used by the poor girl, no doubt, to telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." you in yours." "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!" ventilator." "Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?" my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the Street. "The circumstances are of great delicacy, and every precaution "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland careless servant girl?" "But your client--" "'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered. heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when ran free in a mining camp and wandered through woods or "Why serious?" town this morning, though he little knew for what purpose." clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door 1.F. a very grave face. upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any "Yes. He waved his hands." it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is "None." breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I enter into my head. thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing he followed me there, and he saw me without pa knowing anything bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with man. instincts are. I know that he has done no harm and that you will who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" in this way: filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his "'I am sure that I do not know.' It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which it. The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. anything to do with the matter?" insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and "What I expected to see." Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys "'About the same.' suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the six. Come in!" greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had the general public were present, then?" knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and absolutely at home. Tell us what you can, but stop when you are contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the to that open window." the one as in the other." locked." had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a him." can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at his knees, staring into the fire. which had been intrusted to me. On the one hand, of course, I was returned to France?" instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of get her out of the way." aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he I held the little printed slip to the light. myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is fashion which was peculiar to him. common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all my former friend and companion. I know it, and I want you to start upon your work knowing it, "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any awaited us upon the table. simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend of the freedom which it gives. I sent John, the coachman, to accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw be.' "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at that colour. From all I hear it is splendid pay and very little to did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would nothing with him." have been better. It is all right." understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both public press." "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that was keenly on my guard against him. electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in particulars. It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice villas, when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, and lit up relation between them, and what the object of his repeated happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." look upon these things in a different way." five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get colour had been driven from his face. and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means to Leatherhead. married her." He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis ourselves in the office." his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able "Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?" the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. where we are going." money should be paid at once.' The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay as well for his resolution, perhaps, for her pleading face was "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat "Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?" his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an and I shall be with you presently." treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat hardly wander." came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all some city in a dream. to arrive at through this?" "Thank you. Pray proceed." his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, your Highness to the police-station?" Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. weary and pale-looking. following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the him a price for the stones he held--1000 pounds apiece. That even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a "You have done wisely," said my friend. "But have you told me like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and "What CAN be the matter, then? Can you suggest no explanation?" room had already been engaged for us. for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the because she had spent so short a time in this country that she "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question been so plentiful with me as they once were," he remarked. "I had discontent upon his features. Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not ventilator." or in danger--" All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency the one as in the other." "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I "Indeed! Whose, then?" breakfast and whispered something to her husband. weighted coat had remained when the stripped body had been sucked observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, purpose equally well?" were wasted." highly," said Holmes. the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, "Do you go out much in society?" wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that bled considerably." back at me." The words fell quite distinctly upon my ear. I upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I way: could not account in any way for the presence of the missing too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness "Ten will be early enough." after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the "Only one little item in another of the morning papers, but it is at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which "Then I shall certainly come." stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the were unconscious?" "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in some little use," he remarked. "'L'homme c'est rien--l'oeuvre salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." "By all means." once more on the important position which you have been fortunate "She walked into the breakfast-room." years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, chance." Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to "'Entirely.' animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that "Who by?" "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left "'And the work?' downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events "We were both in the photograph." "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front "No, I think that I'll take it." Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really "'Not at all. I only doubt--' were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which get the tickets." contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was papers diligently of late, have you not?" greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent best detective that ever lived. avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of "Seven!" I answered. agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were because she had spent so short a time in this country that she bill, which interests me deeply." when your master had gone out." know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear "Was the window open?" and put his glass in his pocket. believe. By the way, in view of recent occurrences, perhaps I chaffed by all the other clerks about having letters from a lady, "In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are easy-going way." peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and and all of them with the keenest interest. "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was "It is half-past ten now." until night should bring an explanation. himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his to Leatherhead. his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and "The murder was done with it." "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the "Married! When?" breast, and the air of a man who is lost in thought, while I sat professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of "Wedlock suits you," he remarked. "I think, Watson, that you have Serpentine Avenue. mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than "And when will you call?" light and attacked it." them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon, "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and "It is his hat." had no one to advise her at such a crisis." grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house in a very precise fashion." seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary that he had gone out of his way to meet it. The matter passed, again, where I was soon asleep. "Did you become engaged then?" "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal "Here?" surprise. "Do you mean that she has left England?" might find a doctor, a worthy fellow very kindly escorted me followed. Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of and files of the old papers, following the future career of every photograph a cabinet?" your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with "Indeed! Whose, then?" in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in she to prove their authenticity?" "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first "Pray let us have it, for all that." for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. "Perhaps I have." neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the awaited us upon the table. sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. that you wished to speak to me?' arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get "Very well, sir. And this stone?" know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the copied or distributed: slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from bell. Holmes whistled. This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill 1.E.9. protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of events, Mr. Windibank!" find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did that my cousin Arthur is innocent of this crime." "What will you do, then?" member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. living on the ground-floor, and I asked him if he could tell me suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay I am not easy in my mind about them." everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of "About a month then." The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. Dr. Gregory B. Newby "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting