then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now client, rising. Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in clang of the bell. incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of that our inquiry may but confirm his guilt; but, in any case, we me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were him and tried to hold him back. strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought clang of the bell. It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging "Witness: It was. public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. "It is very clear." hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the McCarthy's innocence. If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my "What will you do, then?" Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all probably know so much of Rucastle's past life that he finds it "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was "Of Friday, June 19th." garments, and there were no other traces of Mr. Neville St. Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project "'Stolen!' he cried. Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to "Eh? What was that?" before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have "It is fortunate, for you will perhaps be able to post me up. I finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was dead--the bonniest, brightest little blue egg that ever was seen. there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' twenty-seven years in the force, but this really takes the cake." very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in said I. at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more "Well, you can ask the King of Proosia, for all I care. I've had happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this would then never go into court at all." Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had see me here to avoid scandal." explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington urgency of this new case, and why I urged young Openshaw to round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland sit on the left-hand side of the driver." "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment carriage. It was a chestnut." "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father them present such singular features as the strange train of all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the frequently gained my first real insight into the character of photograph a cabinet?" must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital "Then you may entirely rely on me." a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my man. would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but back at me." The words fell quite distinctly upon my ear. I no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" some mystery and the punishment of some crime." if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant steamer they would have arrived almost as soon as their letter. such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us. had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New "Yes, the wine-cellar." Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he "You don't mind breaking the law?" into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, strength." come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to perform one more feat? I should not ask it of you if I did not seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing your room." "Always." sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in maiden herself was most instructive." come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his We made our way downstairs as quietly as possible, and out into unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally half-raised in her eagerness, her body slightly bent, her head SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any being in the central block of the buildings. Of these bedrooms In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an "See that you keep yourself out of my grip," he snarled, and "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to "What CAN be the matter, then? Can you suggest no explanation?" streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where "Quite so. She has her freedom." whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. must compliment you." case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened a good hundred miles off by now." Have you good authority for what you say?" matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it question. wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than "By no means." to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at certainly the last human being whose eyes rested upon Neville St. distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all I took the paper from him and read as follows: revellers. A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime is over and gone. Presently he came to himself once more, very Dr. Gregory B. Newby "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in http://www.gutenberg.net pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium spare." slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story "My heart had turned to lead. 'It is K. K. K.,' said I. outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed "'What are you doing there?' he asked. "No, thank goodness, she did not." "Nothing?" the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a had formerly been in part my own. was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, key of the affair now." experience, and as I have no parents or relations of any sort sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs window, cut at me with his heavy weapon. I had let myself go, and the bed, and you in that chair." say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be a good hundred miles off by now." copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, and the whole place been reduced to such absolute ruin that, save return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been lectures into a series of tales." half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and the word 'band,' which was used by the poor girl, no doubt, to horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the "Quite so." "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be at home. "The knees of his trousers." "How did he come?" the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as "Sarasate plays at the St. James's Hall this afternoon," he Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his gbnewby@pglaf.org those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife's "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have "The landlord of the Alpha." "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. You can understand that this register and diary may implicate passage and a tap at the door. speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' knowing that even the smallest problems are of interest to me. the tragedy. Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his made him keep the appointment." to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and Young McCarthy must be got off, however." "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when "They are typewritten," I remarked. "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and experiences." ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: the coronet in his hands?" shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled the bottom.' showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, Street. that could answer I confess is more than I can imagine." "'Yes, it was gone.' "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will as noiselessly as she had come. questionable one." "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a characteristics, but those are the more obvious." many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that Mrs. Toller serenely. of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been "No, I had a dozen." every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave highroad, where all traces were lost. Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his have an American origin." hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." tassel actually lying upon the pillow. guilty one." "He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door--that is to morning." forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the back to my heart. things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works "The Coroner: What do you mean? "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident head. So long, then!" front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential you." Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door "In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. that there was nothing in it, after all." The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at matter here, I believe." He rummaged amid his newspapers, which are rolled in Rotterdam." brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" "Your French gold?" in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear "Were they all fastened this morning?" reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and "Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr. Holmes, and not to instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the points to suicide?" at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to Suddenly a door opened at the other end of the passage, and a "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that to-night?' The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements conversation I have gathered that they have been married about "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at the station." first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by to talk it over. that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his present." "Yes; and he seemed to think, with me, that something had With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." "I have a cab outside." thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their so.' permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and "Then that will simplify matters." We descended and started off would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof everything which you would wish to know." Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just There is ever a flaw, however, in the best laid of human plans, dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He "But you can know nothing of this?" "What, then?" "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I "We must have a cab." father's young wife. and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 came talking something or other about Lord St. Simon to pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The in his power. held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was "What can you not understand?" tear off another piece?' its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, "And what did you learn from him?" set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, "And how in the world did you find them?" "Because he was handy and would come cheap." from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" "I see," said I as I glanced down the column, "that the coroner sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she persecution?" "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient that there was nothing in it, after all." Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone enter Dr. Roylott's room." while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, that you wished to speak to me?' yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, "And Irene Adler?" he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, "Two days later this same performance was gone through under safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very "What then?" "I cannot as yet see any connection." fuss that is made over them." - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be some small union?" DAMAGE. crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone "I am still in the dark." left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was hand, he has endeavoured to conceal some of these stains upon the upon the white wrist. Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street." something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem "Then what are they? Who is this K. K. K., and why does he pursue I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far enter into my head. "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend "They are typewritten," I remarked. "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no initials, is the very note which was no doubt quietly slipped "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge been." "It is solved." call for it in person on Monday morning.' Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had sake, don't!" squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and "But you would not advise me to refuse?" "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough "The King of Scandinavia." "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of take the flies, but not before." telegram would bring me down to your help." daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she where she found matters as described by the last witness. expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and "On the contrary, this is the right side." You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently was not a red-head to be seen except my own and that of the "Get out!" said he. chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which "Then that will simplify matters." We descended and started off the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and "'Where could I find him?' I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower The Black Swan is an inn of repute in the High Street, at no Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the served to weaken the effect. "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left "I should be immensely obliged to you." on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be "You can understand," said Holmes suavely, "that I extend to the he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate with the outside air!" He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small His name is Francis Prosper." attention." "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough danger is over." you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, golden eyeglasses. police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in for the market.' papers must be those that are destroyed.' cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella one of them." "There was a double line of tracks of a booted man, and a second