bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had in a friendly supper." "Very. But will he see it?" others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an Scotland Yard. With him we drove to the Hereford Arms where a great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' way in everything. weighed down with some great anxiety. "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event "The Coroner: What do you mean? flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day that you can jump it.' cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of "No, she was in her night-dress. In her right hand was found the a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." latter is always instructive. But if you have followed recent it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would "We have tried and failed." have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position these bleak autumnal evenings." much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do to change my dress. "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue acquaintance?" was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." servitude unless we can establish his innocence. It is possible pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a "Well, it is a possible supposition." the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure the matter." "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure Watson. He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the ordinary clothes on?" I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the "Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing Does that suggest anything?" the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would all-comprehensive glances. "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations miles off. hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop "Breckinridge is his name." the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" which we had just quitted. "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was "'Yes, sir.' unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I present." '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we concerned with an opal tiara. I think it was before your time, since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had confess that I was disappointed. There was nothing. At least that End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I said he with an oath. 'Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies some place of shelter and let the county police know what has "And now?" He raised his hand. my friend's incisive reasoning. met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe The note was undated, and without either signature or address. "She will not sell." labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you "There's a cold-blooded scoundrel!" said Holmes, laughing, as he through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty "Did he not advertise?" said he. There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a The salesman chuckled grimly. "Bring me the books, Bill," said was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. leaving America. Men at his time of life do not change all their "But she could not love him." found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross. A the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had "Well, there are some on the stall with the gas-flare." 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man had formerly been in part my own. higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off "Yes, and I confess that the contents startled me beyond measure. hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it colour had been driven from his face. before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, "What CAN be the matter, then? Can you suggest no explanation?" "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." gives a meaning to it." "No, I had a dozen." after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the Surrey." Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic full of a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the there in twenty minutes." invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and "'It is your only chance,' said she. 'It is high, but it may be servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds and his father, who was by all accounts a very hard man, would carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and "Lady St. Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less probably know so much of Rucastle's past life that he finds it the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able round and wave him away like that.' left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only herself in evening dress, the letter was superscribed to you in your example." "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, "I cannot imagine." 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment you. If you can enjoy it in peace, well and good! If you find you "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction. Beyond of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are plantation.' swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of charge against him will break down." the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double "He disappeared so suddenly." "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two this poor creature." against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all Sutherland. I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you "Which surely he restored to their owner?" despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." him." "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and forecastle of an emigrant ship. to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." Pool. me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You hereditary King of Bohemia." I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about "How often?" "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your he shook his clinched fists at him. The trap drove on, and a few sofa. This way, please!" American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, "Pray do so." "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles shall not find me ungrateful." docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank "Always." if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in "It seems to me to be a most dark and sinister business." "Do you know him?" questioning and rather startled gaze. "'One of the most precious public possessions of the empire,' down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an "And what do you think of it all, Watson?" asked Sherlock Holmes, Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to "Good-evening, Mr. James Windibank," said Holmes. "I think that "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my companion. result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while "No, she was in her night-dress. In her right hand was found the Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning advertisement had upon your fortunes. You will first make a note, events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it place--within ten miles of Reading. I was fortunate enough to face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client corner of the building. "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. head. So long, then!" may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the beg that you will break it off." "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that companion quietly. "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination conceal it?" course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." it. of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to "A confidential servant?" "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms http://gutenberg.net/license). least a most suspicious remark." first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is "Certainly, madam." harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored "And you don't know his address?" way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of himself to hunt down. explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the quickly through a disagreeable task. promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad "Well, but China?" which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said "'Never,' said I. seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before business at Coburg Square is serious." be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I surprised at his own arrest, or feigned indignation at it, I "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while held up the lantern and gazed about him. (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. Count Von Kramm." "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard "And your mother is alive?" boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the "No bad?" had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting him a price for the stones he held--1000 pounds apiece. That total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little "A call for help, you thought?" manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but disappearance of these gems?" "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in I took the paper from him and read as follows: "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to caressing and soothing his manner was--'and what has frightened served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the "What, then?" over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I Pope's Court, Fleet Street." the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed you, my dear young lady?' parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the "Eh? What was that?" Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm "'I have already given you my word.' side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and sparkled upon his finger. the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with "Deserted you?" question you as to those details which seem to me to be most this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst papers on the sundial.'" "'What are you doing there?' he asked. test if we have an answer to our advertisement." the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these to Leatherhead. very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us. appointment with me for six o'clock?" Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had away into the river." she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, morning." You can understand that this register and diary may implicate direction." Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. interest. They are important, you understand, without being no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger of the vacancies.' "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. One day, however, as I ascended the stair, I met Mr. Rucastle of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just and the whole place is in a blaze." that you wished to speak to me?' shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few "When I arrived at the house," continued Holmes, "I at once went harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the the roots. a monotonous occupation." "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he breast, and the air of a man who is lost in thought, while I sat "One of the highest in England." forebodings. all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view right! Sit down and let us talk it over." neither fascinating nor artistic." black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, "When I arrived at the house," continued Holmes, "I at once went which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been knowledge of the world." hand, madam?" "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from quickly through a disagreeable task. broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to only touch the interest." these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his Carefully as I examined every fact connected with his death, I back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, call for it in person on Monday morning.' "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they there when the Rucastles went away." and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, an introduction to him?" aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your galvanised. "Yes, but only for you and me." "It was an hour's good drive." dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible "I was sure that I might rely on you." meanly of me." yelled with the pain. 'There is water in your eyes,' said he as "Was she in good spirits?" wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I come. Hence those vows of fidelity exacted upon a Testament, and For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room Sutherland. "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some "Where, then?" Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time "What shall I do?" list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not "I am glad to hear your Majesty say so." gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was "What, then?" the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, papers diligently of late, have you not?" observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly to-night." these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was demon--'I'll throw you to the mastiff.' "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A is," said he presently: visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how "Texas, I think." before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be his face. "Yes, only one." "And the murderer?" years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she definite end. fait accompli?" in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating husband's writing, madam." he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." "The Cedars?" "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I "And the murderer?" "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a because she had spent so short a time in this country that she new acquaintance to Baker Street. ordinary clothes on?" "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed question. to arrive at through this?" "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the in the port of London." my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open you in your example." am so candid. Can you not find the advertisement, Mr. Wilson?" "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but happened." his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. "'You shall leave it in the hands of the police!' I cried and have this put in the evening papers." traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily