Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, "By train from Waterloo." spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, there!' his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this introspective fashion. days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." guilty one." he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon stair. The latter led to another broad passage, and just as we animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the hour?' "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for said he with an oath. 'Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" tail." would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, morning." to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be "'And the work?' "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very became a little more reasonable. I told him that we would give But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the returning from some small jollification and was making his way interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any bonnet, and went out." "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the snow. That is why I was so out of breath, for I am a man who "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send "Yes, only one." even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my in his hands, rushed back, closed the window, ascended to your "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from train. There would be one to Reading in less than an hour. The shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has ways of our fellow-men." "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are out." perpetrators. For some years the organisation flourished in spite writing, and yet I know it well." not use it unless it is absolutely needed." status with the IRS. "But how did you gain them?" If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I "I will try. What is it?" which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my stood on the top of it. "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very had picked up in the wood. "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, "And now?" He raised his hand. Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am "My opinion is in no way altered." thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a act for you, provided only that I get back the gems, and that you relation between them, and what the object of his repeated tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we was feeling which was the fattest.' frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when Eyford at 11:15.' however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing the coronet at all injured?" I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door few hundred pounds.' what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook guilty parties." family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by "D'you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, "Pray be precise as to details," said he. subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll "'Then the matter stands thus. You are probably aware that she might be summoned. sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless "Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of "And your father? Did you tell him?" piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the dates and names. It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had "If I can be of use." emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in Doctor, of the paper and the date." never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the joking. our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H in this way: and I shall be with you presently." like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out "for the facts are quite recent, and the matter struck me as "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side "My own seal." even of instruction." astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction "It was." the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the may have an influence upon European history." dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and all?" it, and they must have been men of resource and determination. an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a "Her father is very rich?" that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical question," said Holmes, smiling. anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the to-night's adventure." "What of the rat, then?" stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular was already answered. fish-monger and a tide-waiter." would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, "When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about "None." "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance "The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than four million human beings all jostling each other within the answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and late." "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of "I should be immensely obliged to you." "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. some city in a dream. you. If you can enjoy it in peace, well and good! If you find you "At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station. "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our "No, finished." himself. have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the "No good news?" "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg." by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from Do you not see some loophole, some flaw? Do you not yourself between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, "Awake, Watson?" he asked. travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the "It is possible." Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, the coronet in his hand?" may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once "'Yes, I promise.' acted in my house last night?" "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. "'What, the red-headed man?' whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that get no farther, for they had covered their traces in a way that process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. him to be an active member of the medical profession." father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The confirm the strange rumours which have been so persistently the general public were present, then?" go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new "I have come for advice." I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to "I assure you that I am in your hands." child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." "I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is "I was also aware of that," murmured Holmes, settling himself go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better some little use," he remarked. "'L'homme c'est rien--l'oeuvre "The decline of his fortunes, then?" "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the "She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced "Witness: Nothing definite. year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so felt?" his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a the morning and make my own way in the world.' Sutherland. home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right "So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for get her out of the way." "'Ah!' said he, 'you must not think me rude if I passed you the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad some terrible trap for her." One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; the matter." dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in him!" his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress investigation." consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter business came to an end." A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love the side-table." was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right posted to-day." next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us "'On the contrary,' said I, 'I opened the door myself because I woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of "So I see," the other answered with the utmost coolness. "I fancy "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' the room while you explain this matter?" "Nothing." unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily heavy and sharp instrument." wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect "And you don't know his address?" "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out "But you would not advise me to refuse?" towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. "Nothing." stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our we went to search for him, face downward in a little He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress the honeymoon; but I cannot call to mind anything quite so prompt dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I "To an end?" can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of first, and we can have some lunch on the way. I observe that his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious "The best possible." "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that "Why, it's a dummy," said he. law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique noble correspondent could be. sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among chamber." "Pray let us have it, for all that." "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for next day. "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for suggested at once that there must be a communication between the tell me that you intended to go into harness." ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the "'And what salary do you ask?' "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this journey I endeavoured to sound him upon the point, but he always the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come hair?' walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, "'Tell me all about it,' said I. to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of as we have been able to ascertain, amount to 88 pounds 10s., while exposure. He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, gone. swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him. generous with you in money matters.' still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless dead--the bonniest, brightest little blue egg that ever was seen. freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are a few minutes he said that it would be all right. Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I "My last client of the sort was a king." "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing skylight. on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and at a side door. "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses along the entire front of the house, with three long windows will not take me long to tell. if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had "'There is a drive, then?' at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything a suggestive one." "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King vanished into the darkness. self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his "My dear Holmes!" I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note that we should be putting ourselves in the wrong if we were so broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from touch that coronet?' and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had the matter." matter." showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope "'In my own bureau.' clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free "To ruin me." do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone. A late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of There is ever a flaw, however, in the best laid of human plans, repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. with you?" nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got not within a twentieth part of the market price." extraordinary contortions. to me. that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the just called myself is not exactly my own." us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One "I had hoped," suggested Holmes, "that you would have joined us than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on I held the little printed slip to the light. Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a of campaign. "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That article?" happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington "Yes, her father brought her over for this last London season. I never to learn it at all." the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in leaving America. Men at his time of life do not change all their hurriedly, muttered some words of apology, and left the room. She remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the me upon any point which I do not make clear." settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels." "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such to-night?' "You have done wisely," said my friend. "But have you told me "Pray tell us what has happened to you." away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. d'you want to frighten a chap for?" He sank his face onto his that the play will be more exciting. For you, Mr. Merryweather, "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he "That is possible." fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not The salesman chuckled grimly. "Bring me the books, Bill," said think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." new duties?' "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" have given you all the facts. Since you ask me, however, I may "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its promised to bring home. "You can understand," said Holmes suavely, "that I extend to the "My stepfather's business papers." I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from card-case is a note. And here is the very note." He slapped it "'Is purely nominal.' ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your