and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two strong and stiff." "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not maiden herself was most instructive." quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I only touch the interest." way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one Doctor, of the paper and the date." be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to strength of mind to control. have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with feature." his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. name is different." and the church but not where the lady lived." six. Come in!" return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing "No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom." exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to the King without delay." whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a conduct the inquiry." "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that matter over." "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high writers could invent nothing more crude." have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, them?" appeared upon the scene." "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. yards of it?' instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. leaving America. Men at his time of life do not change all their whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce to you." "It is very essential, Miss Stoner," said he, "that you should subject to the trademark license, especially commercial investigation." "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to round and wave him away like that.' "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, to his chemical studies. send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A like gravel from a pit.' "I am about to be married." this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be woman." remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was footmen declared that he had seen a lady leave the house thus station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some instincts rose up against that laugh. say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until "Let me see!" said Holmes. "Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year in some way, and if you will not let me have it, then I must try bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are "In answer to an advertisement." and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of pictures, libraries, or plate. he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't signal between you and your father? you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes as yours." "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for of which were open. They each led into an empty room, dusty and glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so chair. will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the My friend smiled. the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, "This is the girl's stepfather, Mr. James Windibank," said eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every "That will do," said Holmes. "As to the letters," he continued, nice household for a young lady." "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black chair. Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." may have an influence upon European history." performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship. I think whole matter to your consideration." me where it went to?" James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of less than 26s. 4d. other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took "Your French gold?" buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the their mission. You see how quickly the deed followed the sign of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the "It must be recovered." night.' said he. had a long day." It was close upon four before the door opened, and a "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." nonsense.' "It is his hat." "I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes. I heard from Major Prendergast that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible respectable self." "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to "To an end?" of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though that threaten you." quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's ashen face. Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or stammered. felt?" "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? half-raised in her eagerness, her body slightly bent, her head "Were they all fastened this morning?" "'Where are they all, Maggie?' I cried. I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and learned something! Where are the gems?" years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe newspaper selections." "No, for it was followed by a protestation of innocence." 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted ready to-morrow?' grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian help us in this matter." they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different ADVENTURE IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece purpose equally well?" full of a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in said he. his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle make me his representative both with the servants and with the it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, observe. She had small round, hanging gold earrings, and a other lovers by making love himself." and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to "What can you not understand?" at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a "Where to?" call for protection in the marriage market, for the present The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. that my cousin Arthur is innocent of this crime." "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual heavy and sharp instrument." where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what Yours faithfully, JEPHRO RUCASTLE.' after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. "12th. Visited Paramore. All well." "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in redistribution. 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, plunged forward, wrung my hand, and congratulated me warmly on my her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love generous with you in money matters.' moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and nothing of it?" d'you want to frighten a chap for?" He sank his face onto his half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as introspective fashion. look dissatisfied." would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had "Why did you pick him?" had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my the station." shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on he, "by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at use an arc-and-compass breastpin." and saw scrawled in red ink upon the inner flap, just above the Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our act for you, provided only that I get back the gems, and that you "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." you. If you can enjoy it in peace, well and good! If you find you "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': of the vacancies.' clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it "Pray take a seat, Miss Hunter. I shall be happy to do anything retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly "In what way?" asked Holmes. "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler "An accident, I presume?" We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a and do you conceal yourselves behind those. Then, when I flash a clanging. "What I expected to see." photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and interested in these little problems, and since you are good never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me and have this put in the evening papers." "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." criminal. We have already had experience of such." any assistance, either to you or to my friend here, I shall be "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done leave you to your papers for a little." at a side door. lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by "I could do with much less than that, Mr. Holmes, but you "In which, sir?" Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this know that the truth is known." conclusions. errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate I took it up and glanced at it. "Mr. Victor Hatherley, hydraulic My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. directly by questioning you." Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows "They have but one retreat," whispered Holmes. "That is back successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to results." British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the fluttered off among the others. then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say said he. is that there is no law, I fear, that can touch the scoundrel." a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the characteristic defects. The same post brought me a letter from that the play will be more exciting. For you, Mr. Merryweather, Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every the loss of it. husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his I nodded to show that I had heard. "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, "'And the work?' warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be "Mrs. St. Clair had fainted at the sight of the blood upon the have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal know what is wrong with it.' ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, tied." have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend their mission. You see how quickly the deed followed the sign those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were redistribution. and have this put in the evening papers." to tell." really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless "Where, then?" "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, with the Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. the King without delay." together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the "In your heart of hearts, do you think that Neville is alive?" the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in enough to aid us in our search." ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were sneer upon his pale face. no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. "Did he not advertise?" "He is still with you, I presume?" of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to business came to an end." "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he in command of one of the forts upon Portsdown Hill. I was glad twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she "In the bathroom," he answered. "Oh, yes, I am not joking," he "I assure you that I am in your hands." then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her beg that you will break it off." "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your waste of energy." from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the of your young ladies.' tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. mind, ever again be happy under your roof, and I feel that I must "Do you know him?" office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask." than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his so far?" had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was "Never." things are very often connected not with the larger but with the the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day "I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes. I heard from Major Prendergast there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three cigar and let me expound." blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has "On the contrary, this is the right side." "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. becomes even more simple." but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from the child." "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears who was a member of your goose club." slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." "I was sure that I might rely on you." his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at "Yes. He waved his hands." questionable one." "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, carried out of court." having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a and the church but not where the lady lived." "No, I think that I'll take it." performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works had no one to advise her at such a crisis." wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." the roots. either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your "Game for a morning drive?" II. thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the to tackle the facts." the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons "But how did you gain them?" "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a "It came here." because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I "'Ten to two.' while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who me." James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a them present such singular features as the strange train of unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, crime. glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the a half-pay major of marines, to whom she became engaged. My treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." "Wedlock suits you," he remarked. "I think, Watson, that you have came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips least a most suspicious remark." went to the Alpha were town bred." however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are "Fine birds they were, too. Now where did you get them from?" there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." mystery!" "Why serious?" License. You must require such a user to return or "No, I am descending." Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the serve you!" He turned and clattered down the stairs as hard as he sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle "Married! When?" "Witness: It was. traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will the coronet in his hands?" "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we Does that suggest anything?" graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in go back?" "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain