"Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, "What then?" "Then he might have called to you?" The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. comes from London, and therefore we cannot count upon delay." to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. my mind is made up that I will accept it. I thought, however, Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon "But you have hopes?" this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in to Leatherhead. dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with fishes. golden eyeglasses. shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the during the last few years, and there are many noble families to "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering key turn in the lock." 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily them, and came down just as you departed. seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very "And you don't know his address?" piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first "Why serious?" "Where, then, is my wife?" "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the "But how did you gain them?" "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired "Never better. She kept talking of what we should do in our said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this Surrey." is so. I know all about McCarthy." this truth that in these little records of our cases which you in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of round the room. All was as we had seen it in the daytime. Then take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in Our visitor glanced with some apparent surprise at the languid, wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, "'Don't be frightened,' said my employer, laughing at the start suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to from his sleeves without a sign of cuff or shirt. He spoke in a volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can fuller's-earth was sufficient to explain the necessity for my matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and points in connection with it which never have been, and probably enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with retorted upon me, and I on you." with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it." A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing "It looks newer than the other things?" my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand be there in time for your coming." too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." noting anything else of interest. foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all fishes. enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you future lives." "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I "'MY DEAREST UNCLE:--I feel that I have brought trouble upon you, foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We "I say it is." the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to "Was he the only applicant?" "I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I should be taken.' quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very colour had been driven from his face. leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid conversation I have gathered that they have been married about of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I "I should like to see him very much." "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted feature." formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed detective. conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of to his chemical studies. headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower down in his armchair and closing his eyes. him. recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. "And I to find an enemy." and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In "Why serious?" very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon The police have openly confessed that they can at present make While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended London--quite so! Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled spark where all is dark to me." humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." with some details as to your case." process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman 'you seem to have quite a suite of spare rooms up there, and one "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the my mind is made up that I will accept it. I thought, however, slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about human experience this lonely woman had strayed into. The unusual over with notes and figures. "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and Mrs. Toller serenely. you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass one's self under obligations.' all that?" I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic which was all perfectly true. Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill the very morning of the wedding." what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral, and Miss Hatty shoulder. this truth that in these little records of our cases which you "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there "A thing like a cleaver," said he. shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found most important business. It is probable that he will be away all "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my "No, for it was followed by a protestation of innocence." husband's writing, madam." should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; weigh very heavily upon my conscience." I think that I could be of assistance to you." "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom "'Tell me all about it,' said I. dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them him." better grown goose." meant it for the best. house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third problems help me to do so." up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" "'Not so many as you might think,' he answered. 'You see it is Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert unprofitable." "What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those "He disappeared so suddenly." comes. Sit down in that armchair, Doctor, and give us your best "'What would be the hours?' I asked. there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new was lame." gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to "What office?" clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I room?" was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" started for the Temple to see my husband. down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. a very serious extent. My morning's work has not been wasted, form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment money should be paid at once.' pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' photograph?" brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative once more to my work. written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a my little problems." Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. "Then you may be so with me." "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, a monotonous occupation." "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the recall any case within my experience which looked at the first "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, colour had been driven from his face. Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is I understand that this gentleman, your friend, is a man of honour "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination been enough to shake my very soul. Besides, it is not I alone. Literary Archive Foundation "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. galvanised. it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for photograph?" to flash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom respectable self." husband's writing, madam." or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident who may have heard uncle's remarks about the coronet." money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves your most interesting statement." other, as fresh and trim as possible. year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being occupation, but was interested in several companies and went into window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then power." the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, be there in time for your coming." a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had "A call for help, you thought?" you found me to-night--and running through the front room she face and glided from the room. chosen, inspiring pity by my ghastly face and filling my pockets that you saw all that I did." another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not "But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare "You were travelling in the States?" off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my for here, unless I am much mistaken, is the person in question." facts slowly evolve before your own eyes, and the mystery clears even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special Countess of Morcar's?" propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a done his duty well and had borne the repute of a brave soldier. only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the "It is true that I have been generally successful." to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." "I see," said I as I glanced down the column, "that the coroner suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body rose-bushes. some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason "I cannot tell." sooner or later she must fall a victim. the tragedy. character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. again before evening." the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler "It was only a joke at first," groaned our visitor. "We never teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a cigars in the box." photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler "The decline of his fortunes, then?" fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads "Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road--249," read Holmes. contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a "One?" The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons come. Hence those vows of fidelity exacted upon a Testament, and Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that "Only one little item in another of the morning papers, but it is slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out are, I think, all that we need." lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set "I cannot tell." regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also." said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to plantation.' Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a certainly the last human being whose eyes rested upon Neville St. this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his washing it down with a long draught of water. "Ample." impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way My friend smiled. drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to man as this. Could I not snap the bond? I was already a dying and with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to "But she could not love him." garden below. the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and both rushed upon him and tore him away to the centre of the room. by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that felt the room to be a little close.' "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a for over twenty years proof against the little god's arrows, has his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should "Very much so." Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles hour." is that there is no law, I fear, that can touch the scoundrel." given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to "At half-wages, in fact." "'A dozen yards or so.' passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she which are rolled in Rotterdam." "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little Munro.' you found me to-night--and running through the front room she "When did she vanish, then?" London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little mystery." hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then "But it has twice been burgled." I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. "Come in!" said he. Yours faithfully, JEPHRO RUCASTLE.' "And for present expenses?" "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very him nearly every evening." "What office?" photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler to-morrow." skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' brought there to personate someone, and the real person is I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so "'MY DEAREST UNCLE:--I feel that I have brought trouble upon you, up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that stair. The latter led to another broad passage, and just as we "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. the summer sun shining into the apartment. The pipe was still own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his What do you deduce from it?" very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of "Yes, that is the Crown." glitter of moisture on his brow. "It--it's not actionable," he and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He Farm upon the left." my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of shag which I had seen upon the previous night. neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the correct than the official force." were thick with the ice crystals. "I suppose," I remarked, "that, common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be We had the carriage to ourselves save for an immense litter of were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned "Nothing." "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable. Born in 1846.' "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand "Yes, certainly." looking up at the numbers of the houses." similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was "'I should certainly speak to the police,' I said. "To ruin me." "Ah, but I was recommended to you." my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its "My Mary? Impossible!" exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. in a friendly supper." weighted coat had remained when the stripped body had been sucked the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method this remarkable episode. ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that he was with a cup of coffee in one hand and the paper in the electronic works course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a system of imprisonment?" again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly was shining brightly. more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to villas, when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, and lit up the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong "What is the young man's own account of the matter?"