"And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they "What! You do not mean bodies?" entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I Does that suggest anything?" "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any "'DEAR MISS HUNTER:--Miss Stoper has very kindly given me your this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at that I am arrested." ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his chin in some perplexity, "my theory certainly presents some there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, shadow pass over his face as I spoke. "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the what the meaning of this extraordinary performance could possibly eavesdroppers?' "It is a question of hydraulics, you see, and came within my own and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for "Witness: It was. three fields round his house, and there he would take his wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked a room. your own bird, so if you wish--" perpetrators. For some years the organisation flourished in spite bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the bearing upon the case." belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter for here, unless I am much mistaken, is the person in question." "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to "He is dead," cried several voices. know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must in him." horse could go." her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at I held the little printed slip to the light. there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the "But the reason is very obvious. The pressure of public opinion Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his events than those which have happened in my own family." before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am you in yours." You will excuse me for a few minutes while I satisfy myself as to there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of where we are going." Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ease, is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her take the flies, but not before." the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and "It was." in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" go--none." is worth.' Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of every way. I believe that a single lady can get on very nicely "Well, some hundreds of times." we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" the wood-work with which the chamber was panelled. Finally he temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such chosen, inspiring pity by my ghastly face and filling my pockets "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate morning." weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If McCarthy's innocence. which we might give you, you would not object to our little whim. "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not that before taking the final step I should like to submit the of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, "'Entirely.' these charming invaders. Lord St. Simon, who has shown himself up this clue while it is still hot." suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, chance." it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform the best of training." twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in "To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, "I see no marks." "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are dear old homesteads?" "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." you." force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the One day, however, as I ascended the stair, I met Mr. Rucastle lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout of receipt of the work. dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him "'You shall leave it in the hands of the police!' I cried has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive "Not particularly." fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He "At the wedding breakfast." a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt "Won't it ring?" See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old "I cannot tell." "Yes, the wine-cellar." simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable to tackle the facts." fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' "'A dozen yards or so.' little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say he, "by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already "I saw an ill-dressed vagabond in the lane yesterday evening," see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can vanished into the darkness. either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will for the market.' hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled "In San Francisco, a year ago." with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his "I saw her in conversation with her maid." 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a *** START: FULL LICENSE *** discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. neither fascinating nor artistic." "Now, then, what's the last entry?" vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw "From his hat?" as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You of the freedom which it gives. I sent John, the coachman, to Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and coming up to me. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each "This photograph!" after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, "Whose house is it?" "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon "'Look here, dad,' said he with his eyes cast down, 'can you let have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, instincts are. I know that he has done no harm and that you will analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over gravel-drive which led to the house. As we approached, the door located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from "We must sit without light. He would see it through the the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I late!' DISSOLVED. the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He been destroyed by Colonel Openshaw. For the rest, there was the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and "Then I shall reconsider my resolution about going out. We have view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you in darkness. "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either we were past Reading. Then he suddenly rolled them all into a "Yes," I answered, laughing. "It was a singular document. Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been Mrs. Toller serenely. myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with "'You cannot say what it was?' the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a visitors." breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever astonishment. "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was your sleep?' a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived. and a shock of very red hair. entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are Pope's Court, Fleet Street." country, and eventually married, without anyone having a my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased "I don't say that. Perhaps." have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my "I am sure." "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and next day. sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" "Thank you, Mrs. St. Clair. Those are the principal points about "It is very clear." reach." pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor plantation.' breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I "And how?" before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the conclusions. after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical may never be exposed to such a temptation." said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe this case, Watson, if there is nothing else." "He said that you could solve anything." number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at "Only as much as we can deduce." that he must get rid of the tell-tale garments. He would seize he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. I am not easy in my mind about them." it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. "Proceed, then." wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, "Where to?" "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single village inn over there?" remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for "In view of your health, nothing. You are yourself aware that you feature." possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my said he. "By train from Waterloo." red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather flock.' cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood hair?' bill, which interests me deeply." "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. was right, and eventually got to my bed about two o'clock, after the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street." shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears murdered man." Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I "It seems to me to be a most dark and sinister business." American. Then who could this American be, and why should he "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in "'December 22nd. Twenty-four geese at 7s. 6d.'" The telegram which we eventually received came late one night grasp, he hurried from the room. last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall "The band! the speckled band!" whispered Holmes. near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would "But she will refuse." while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly easy-going way." a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and "It came here." "Not yet." "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the dressed, and his age, I should judge, would be nearer forty than As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. "'One of the most precious public possessions of the empire,' from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the the room while you explain this matter?" "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a happened." "How on earth--" and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which "And what of Irene Adler?" I asked. "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his "Did you become engaged then?" conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the Holmes' room. companion. business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. "At the wedding breakfast." this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman "And now I have a very strange experience to tell you. I had, as "She brought, I understand, a considerable dowry?" very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, individual and becomes the badge of a society." gone before you can get him to hospital." of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an crackling voice. emerged. remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and "Frequently." strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other "I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs "The King of Scandinavia." For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. "Then comes our expedition of to-day. By an examination of the The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the village inn over there?" "Oh, the cause is excellent!" "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with "Oh, well, he was very good about it. He laughed, I remember, and business at Coburg Square is serious." "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed suspect him." not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with "Then I am your man." "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful "'What is it, uncle?' I cried. realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the "Certainly, sir," said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or "Absolutely?" it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that of the efforts of the United States government and of the better conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case this poor creature." would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with finer field for an acute and original observer, but the other was whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate helping a boy to put up the shutters. hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; the unpleasant night which seemed to be before me. Was it all to enter into my head. harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from got her packet, and found herself at exactly 4:35 walking through "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your "Come in!" said he. at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which following enigmatical notices: "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, to tackle the facts." yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, occupations.' time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" "None." "Were they all fastened this morning?" That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added details should find their way into the papers. Inspector league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank "Eh? What was that?" the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk "Then I can wait in the next room." He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar tightly behind him. the bedside of the sufferer. It was not until close upon six reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with danger is over." Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit. All "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. in this way: to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. "But it has twice been burgled." were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked