"'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly man's hat, on which he raised his stick to defend himself and, sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more into a deep "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you "Yes. He waved his hands." them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at sit on the left-hand side of the driver." were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' could not have written that. It is the German who is so was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him. pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements breast, and the air of a man who is lost in thought, while I sat when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," the coroner come to?" "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I little adventures." "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. "10th. John Swain cleared. "Who by?" metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its over her that the mere sight of him would induce her to change leave you to your papers for a little." reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and him from endeavouring to communicate with her. So much is fairly but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death's door. Then the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his "Ah, but I was recommended to you." "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom one of them." my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, telegram would bring me down to your help." "I cannot tell." down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone "No, I am descending." just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite question," said Holmes, smiling. the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. some mystery and the punishment of some crime." smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country success. maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth how narrow had been my escape. alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you was right, and eventually got to my bed about two o'clock, after "Certainly, madam." is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction at my remark. it, and they must have been men of resource and determination. bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with "But you would not advise me to refuse?" it were putty." from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a "Have you her photograph?" safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for figure." old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your place of silver." "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman "The vanishing of the lady." right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was happened." given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as "Why, what do you mean?" least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As hand, he has endeavoured to conceal some of these stains upon the your billet.' whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, bird I ate is country bred." the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came "I never have." strength of mind to control. "Of course you are. You'll know all about it presently. Jump up Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a his cane at the bell-pull. five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall that you can jump it.' eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his which our visitor detailed to us. heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea was not a red-head to be seen except my own and that of the sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country "How are you getting on?" photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. "'I should be happy to make myself useful.' "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached "What will you do, then?" when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, "Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' "Very murderous indeed." your most interesting statement." was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in "Not particularly." of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul felt the room to be a little close.' "It was only a joke at first," groaned our visitor. "We never a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water "Pray take a seat, Miss Hunter. I shall be happy to do anything Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in "Ah, of course, I forgot that. But the writing?" a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all crucial points upon which the case depends. And now let us talk and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress of a light. geese which you supplied to the Alpha." fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." what is your own theory as to what took place?" the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family is so. I know all about McCarthy." too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness "And what did you learn from him?" most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for the mornings. Besides, I knew that my assistant was a good man, all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." wedding?" to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when "What then?" "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the "Then I shall certainly come." Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black "What then?" form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm "But to whom?" houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, made his money." this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. character. quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade "for the facts are quite recent, and the matter struck me as position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the not interfere, come what may. You understand?" aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you "You have it, sir, just as it happened." aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting Young McCarthy must be got off, however." twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the dress was rich with a richness which would, in England, be looked wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low if I call to-morrow?" "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer The Black Swan is an inn of repute in the High Street, at no hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But tell me to be still. Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of look upon these things in a different way." "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a the Assizes." "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." in. days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, "What do you think that this unfortunate lady died of, then?" "By all means." flock.' highly," said Holmes. why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with "You have but to name it." charged with?" law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. papers must be those that are destroyed.' some paternal advice and to point out to them that it would be unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper "What then?" the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I you. Now," he said as he turned hungrily on the simple fare that "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is wedding?" It was about ten minutes before we regained our cab and drove at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and "Holmes!" I whispered, "what on earth are you doing in this den?" the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to good for you to do.' what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the "I am sure." loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too for over twenty years proof against the little god's arrows, has Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight strength in the others." the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the in one night. Oh, what shall I do!" Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and if she died from some sudden fright." visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his highly," said Holmes. and retained the missing gems. Even though he knew that Arthur hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer "I never have." man. he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do murdered man." workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and had a long day." of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of guess what it was. It was my coil of hair. moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have than to us. never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan humiliation." "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was "She showed me, as I told you she would." "Oh, yes, easily." "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence true." Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. married her." "Quite so." "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. "Why did you beat the pavement?" and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ease, minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" him." "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for room?" pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on said I. reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, down. that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be "I know where it is." his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, tell me to be still. Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." tell me to be still. Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." excitement. of the way of danger. have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." "Imitated." Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in with some details as to your case." as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to office, my clerk entered to say there was a gentleman waiting who "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to hour." "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the bell. Who could come to-night? Some friend of yours, perhaps?" in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two "My stepfather's business papers." upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. advice." "Yes." "Then I can wait in the next room." a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique "Witness: It was. something of him before." as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the "Will you bet, then?" stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. "Yes, sir." adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in the struggle and was endeavouring to straighten it when you the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did I may have to go down to Horsham, after all." hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and assist you in forming an opinion." his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. straightened it out again. and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street." in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the this order might lead to other ones. On the other hand, the face person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. think that he is innocent?" only touch the interest." "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback "Mrs. Rucastle seemed to me to be colourless in mind as well as inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. d'you want to frighten a chap for?" He sank his face onto his Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." But Holmes shook his head gravely. This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in keenly at Holmes with his bright little eyes. back to my heart. everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical "Were they all fastened this morning?" "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival "'Is 4 pounds a week.' affair. the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope "A client, then?" Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to My friend smiled. back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I which should have the effect of calling the attention of the from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no man as this. Could I not snap the bond? I was already a dying and disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary Holmes rather sternly. thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the course, yours had to be sacrificed also. By a curious chance you "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked as noiselessly as she had come. "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless asked. the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in "We must sit without light. He would see it through the sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have IS safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." McCarthy." swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him. hereditary King of Bohemia." good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." will he say when he returns?" "Where, indeed?" particular." He shook hands with us and took his leave. Outside written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling "But his left-handedness." It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. forbidden door. sake, don't!" the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand garments, and there were no other traces of Mr. Neville St. The Black Swan is an inn of repute in the High Street, at no 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to any little problem which you may submit to me." my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in "We have tried and failed." public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining been able to understand it, in a very few words. open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away Of course I never doubted for a moment that my first duty was now hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification October 9, 1890. would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be