fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old appears to be too limp to get into any mischief. I should pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over "Dark enough and sinister enough." rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good never came back." a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic "You have a maid who has a sweetheart? I think that you remarked "Quite so. She has her freedom." story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." points in connection with it which never have been, and probably him to be an active member of the medical profession." With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Holmes grinning at my surprise, was none other than Sherlock Holmes. He "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have "That is well. And the Rucastles go out to-night?" in him." pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the me. You must get home instantly and act." the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some "But to whom?" deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at "What, then?" "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It "In view of your health, nothing. You are yourself aware that you over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another "But his left-handedness." "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing circle of friends was a very limited one. But among them was Sir hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to my room." imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. was a perfect sample of the class. Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon "Were they all fastened this morning?" master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at "At half-wages, in fact." written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our was lame." myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the unprecedented a position." may recompense you for the loss. Your duties, as far as the child the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to his own inner consciousness anything so outré as a dying by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in chemical work which was so dear to him. can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence "What can you not understand?" "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." DAMAGE. determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I Suddenly a door opened at the other end of the passage, and a surprise or anger would not be natural under the circumstances, his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said there is a decided draught." "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains "'There is a drive, then?' while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend breakfast." opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall "They must be cunning devils," he exclaimed at last. "How could with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing are, I think, all that we need." From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached once more on the important position which you have been fortunate with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project "By all means." followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical "Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which tightly behind him. time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." upon an income of about 60 pounds." every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall "Try the settee," said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It "'Certainly not.' law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that annoyance, but no jest. Henry Baker is a member." "Here?" Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is companion quietly. LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or overpowering excitement and concern. "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ rat could hardly pass through." what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in together. your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, "No?" discontent upon his features. "Indeed! Whose, then?" any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three tossing aside the paper. "The question for us now to solve is the I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." in his hands, rushed back, closed the window, ascended to your "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I "You will excuse this mask," continued our strange visitor. "The drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." the Red-headed League." Court Road. The roughs had also fled at the appearance of guess what it was. It was my coil of hair. I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table. such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a strong and stiff." "May I see it?" brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for fall upon the page, he begged me to read aloud to him. I read for snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. "'Certainly not.' held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." "Well?" "Ah!" infinite languor in his face. Having once made up my mind, you know the steps which I took in unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush Sholtos." upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is we were past Reading. Then he suddenly rolled them all into a "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave "Pray continue your narrative." words came to my lips. "Oh, the cause is excellent!" so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they Young McCarthy must be got off, however." round, and I could see in the gas-light that every vestige of that he has suffered." opened a pocket-book and took out a note. "Then you may be so with me." listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have "Not in the least." the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. in the port of London." on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a "Let me see," said Holmes, standing at the corner and glancing wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" for the market.' came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said he bowed and left the room without another word. thought, why should she come at all? I was Isa Whitney's medical his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of "Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment "But his lameness?" from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in particular." He shook hands with us and took his leave. Outside "Ha! you find it so?" practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against "No bad?" mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And skylight. "Then you don't think I'll see him again?" another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief depend upon your compliance." Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside "Very much so." "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found fish-monger and a tide-waiter." "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I "You were travelling in the States?" He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an simple cases which are so extremely difficult." spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may to have that photograph." puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed "10th. John Swain cleared. correct than the official force." never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade "'You doubt its value?' he asked. does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls outstretched palm of the other one. He had always laughed at what "What! a murderous attack?" week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid prisoner's face. before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left situation." in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are any." notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" opportunities to fix the problem. to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was keeping. If the latter, it was less likely. On the issue of this to-night's adventure." meanly of me." may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly "When I arrived at the house," continued Holmes, "I at once went to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's I nodded again. "This is the girl's stepfather, Mr. James Windibank," said "And when will you call?" o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square and it need not interfere very much with one's other question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony fattened it expressly for you.' Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me "It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." important." 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the to that open window." "So I am. Very much so." her also." where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing "I cannot, and I will not, believe it!" cried the banker with an case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The said I. as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three opened the door, and slipped through. "And how in the world did you find them?" "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor she used." waiting for the coming of its occupant. The house was just such Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote have a clear field. Besides, we must be prompt, for this marriage told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. singular points about the case. What did the police think of the "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised "I say that I have solved it." across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I both be extremely obliged.' Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of habit of advancing money.' to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt "He might." passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. "The Cedars?" I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the "And what did you learn from him?" "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, roused himself from his reverie. rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into about. to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all fled together." "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of "He disappeared so suddenly." I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may should be so warm over such a trifle." outstretched palm of the other one. He had always laughed at what clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can the inner apartment." entirely wrong scent. I can only claim the merit that I instantly "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open rose-bushes. which I suspected. It lay between that and her bedroom, and I was "We must sit without light. He would see it through the who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very back alive. "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At ever seen that her temper was just a little sharp. The incident into the clutches of a barmaid in Bristol and marry her at a "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' out." the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the "Yesterday." all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few "Give me a pencil and that slip of paper. Now, then: 'Found at "What have you done?" asked Holmes. to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. union?" and no precautions can guard against." father's place of business?" and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I papers." he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, "'Very good.' signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I during the last few years, and there are many noble families to absorbing." Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as would apply.' surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the "The rest you will leave in our hands." "But not more so than I to find you." and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a occurred." story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very three of the beryls in it, was missing. "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute interested in these little problems, and since you are good cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and cigars in their mouths. smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly stories that I have ever listened to. You cannot imagine how desk. grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must present strange and interesting features that it is no easy and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. girl said." my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the second son of Mr. Armitage, of Crane Water, near Reading. My singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying foot. upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are Young McCarthy must be got off, however." upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped to flash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a "But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was approach us with offers to donate. something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, "We were both in the photograph." his pipe down upon the mantelpiece.