affection." "That's no good." sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been other lovers by making love himself." of fine shops and stately business premises that they really is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do strength of mind to control. too. "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this national property. I was determined that the law should have its best detective that ever lived. "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper signal I tossed my rocket into the room with a cry of "Fire!" The the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the the coroner come to?" "There has been some villainy here," said Holmes; "this beauty the roots. There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the "And what did you see?" railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried all-comprehensive glances. "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see." untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness James Windibank. Voilà tout!" superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had His smile broadened. home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ "Then I can wait in the next room." beg that you will break it off." standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, "Have you her photograph?" face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with burning tallow--walks upstairs at night probably with his hat in "Certainly, madam." sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his upon the white wrist. "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith during that time.' "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of depend upon your compliance." weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting "Very murderous indeed." merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. "Yes, and I confess that the contents startled me beyond measure. "Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad "And how did you find out?" firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. second son of Mr. Armitage, of Crane Water, near Reading. My business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, we were past Reading. Then he suddenly rolled them all into a "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his "At what time?" could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this "That is unusual in a young girl." ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. "I will try. What is it?" hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the not, dad?" she asked. roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' fire. You quite follow me?" hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if have got?" deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the him." Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and highroad, where all traces were lost. generous with you in money matters.' this remarkable episode. written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you "I don't believe it." "Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in next day. thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." crackling voice. qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying hurried by. "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers "Not particularly." had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with "The band! the speckled band!" whispered Holmes. himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual London--quite so! Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the "I came to find a friend." said I. very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit. All comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his II. Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which course, yours had to be sacrificed also. By a curious chance you assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which awkward doing business with an alias." on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the existence." "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my the general public were present, then?" He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out grinning at my surprise, was none other than Sherlock Holmes. He was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. "Good-evening, Mr. James Windibank," said Holmes. "I think that very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" purpose equally well?" promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had the little opening for the ventilator is." lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. "No, I am descending." The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons voice, changing her seat as requested. a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst "The circumstances are of great delicacy, and every precaution "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a "I was afraid that you were engaged." and that he would see to anything that turned up. goes." "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an occupation, but was interested in several companies and went into severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and said he with an oath. 'Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." and no precautions can guard against." It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I "Stolen." address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached "How did you trace it, then?" "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. cigars in their mouths. He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his "Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only breakfast." "To the police?" people in all walks of life. My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of skylight. "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." "It's nothing of the kind." door behind him. "It is quite certain that he knows nothing events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long to tackle the facts." stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. here." The King stared at him in amazement. we went to search for him, face downward in a little way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible morning." the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed "You had my note?" he asked with a deep harsh voice and a during our short interview, but I am afraid that I must remain began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had round, and I could see in the gas-light that every vestige of saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the streets in train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I "When I arrived at the house," continued Holmes, "I at once went crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' success. shall use the carriage to-night." other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it answered with a sidelong glance. one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser. As you "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The "Married! When?" careless servant girl?" entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." giving me time to thank him. receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a shall not find me ungrateful." followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical amused." of it with the greatest attention. "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A Street. should be so warm over such a trifle." said. "Theories are all very well, but we have to deal with a "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. you do it in twenty minutes!' "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached congenial hunt. he saw clearly not only what had happened but what was about to pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it security.' rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. had solved my problem. When you drove home after the concert I and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" sofa. This way, please!" "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his out of this horrible affair." his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' It was about ten minutes before we regained our cab and drove "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall yards of it?' "I warn you that they are very incomplete." your sleep?' front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was "No more words. Get out!" charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly "Will you bet, then?" however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been should have spoken to you before I went; but I was kind of Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the strength in the others." the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would "And how in the world did you find them?" was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in in the strongest terms. Evidence of a previous conviction for Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil "Where did he live, then?" whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked the general public were present, then?" "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and to tackle the facts." for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, "Oh, fresh and glossy." old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," their mission. You see how quickly the deed followed the sign redistribution. does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, disappearance of these gems?" wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an compunction about shooting them down." trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk down. Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he "By no means." where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock "'Then let me do so?' "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?" be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to there was no need for father to know." after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six "It is true that I have been generally successful." toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through "To an end?" "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' his eyes and forehead. go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham ashen face. to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is ready to-morrow?' Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal villas, when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, and lit up beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out "I think that it is very probable." what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I "Yes, sir." Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her 'I should be able to look after that for you.' way: the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which manager. young man, Mr. Merryweather, but he is at the head of his "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or "Nothing?" hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, exceedingly remarkable one, and I shall be happy to look into it. the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then written, and locked the door of the office after me. and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for congratulate you again." "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a "That is easily got." you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried leave you to your papers for a little." one hand and a guttering candle in the other. Anyhow, he never has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, them present such singular features as the strange train of with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. pierced for earrings?" Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The "Then I shall reconsider my resolution about going out. We have look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was "How did you deduce the select?" "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is the one as in the other." "Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which particulars. It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional "You have it, sir, just as it happened." slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to seven miles from Eyford Station.' observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim "Very murderous indeed." "One horse?" interjected Holmes. their singular warning or token before them when starting upon going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few been able to understand it, in a very few words. Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" relation between them, and what the object of his repeated "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced "No." copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, ear. From under this great panoply she peeped up in a nervous, little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and "What do you mean?" impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the indeed happy." annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your this remarkable episode. The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though "Well, there are some on the stall with the gas-flare." when it fell. The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to which should have the effect of calling the attention of the Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining "The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a "Farewell, then," said the old man solemnly. "Your own deathbeds, from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little once more on the important position which you have been fortunate the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he miles off. room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence. experiences." like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some "It is possible." that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip information in his hands the value of which he did not himself "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. it might be of some assistance. I will call at four o'clock in "DEAR MR. HOLMES:--I am very anxious to consult you as to whether "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly was shining brightly. should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried this unhappy family?" insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of meant." He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for exposure. He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the "But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go. What do you think, Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her