or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is again on its way. With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the "I will, Miss Turner." were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found me, and I could not think that his explanation of the "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and "Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of "Wedlock suits you," he remarked. "I think, Watson, that you have to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique may have an influence upon European history." "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I must be when I saw the door open.' stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as went to the Alpha were town bred." "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster the ground, and sitting still. It was a long fight between my day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in column of the Morning Post, and dates, as you see, some weeks girl said." feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or "Whose house is it?" overpowering excitement and concern. have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!" "The gentleman I describe." Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat confirm the strange rumours which have been so persistently smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact bonnet, and went out." this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger. of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project Cross for the Continent." chemical work which was so dear to him. closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his "Why did you beat the pavement?" rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If "Very naturally not. Did you see Miss Doran on the day before the He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he very morning of my second wedding." Road, to a salesman named Breckinridge, by him in turn to Mr. strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He to affect your life." "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved bears upon the case?" laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in "Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of awkward doing business with an alias." the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained Holmes." me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door come either from the window or the door. My attention was turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight stories that I have ever listened to. You cannot imagine how say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point "Why did you beat the pavement?" It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached both be extremely obliged.' "I was certainly surprised to find you there." most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her "How can you tell that?" I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing outside. "I am Mr. Holmes," answered my companion, looking at her with a and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." or who would venture to set him free. I slipped in in safety and "He said too much." have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly without success. At last the little money which I had saved began give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the push her way in, uttering very abusive expressions towards my "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, were wasted." the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given kindly on the shoulder. strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever Edgeware Road. "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute little woman to-night when she meets me at the door." breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that His smile broadened. other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had more cunning than himself upon his track. You must lock yourself pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up "That was it, sir." to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should "You have but to name it." it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," to flash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I Clair, of Lee." Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come dark, lack-lustre eye turned upon the newcomer. Out of the black Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. question. do in these deserted rooms, and I once saw him carrying a large "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but "'Oh,' says she, 'we've set yours aside for you--Jem's bird, we He walked swiftly and in silence for some few minutes until we inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?" Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." light and attacked it." laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, "What?" "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New "Very naturally not. Did you see Miss Doran on the day before the the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the "Who was the criminal, then?" prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for "How many? I don't know." when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the feature." that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his and the colonel ushered me in. elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it dear old homesteads?" his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have waiting for the coming of its occupant. The house was just such against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally Lestrade of Scotland Yard." "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the "It surprised me." there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all him. The singular incident made, as you may think, the deepest Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement look upon these things in a different way." are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be husband's writing, madam." shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin "Because he was handy and would come cheap." what I may call a really hard day's work." "In answer to an advertisement." makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" we went to search for him, face downward in a little presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I the Assizes." him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow get her out of the way." my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little three fields round his house, and there he would take his especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may means taking possession of that which another person has a prior greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, wedding?" "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for will find little credit to be gained out of this case." the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went ill-usage at the hands of fortune. "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall been with you?" "One?" veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman greatest consternation by the strange and painful episodes which down from London to inquire more deeply into it." Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I not interfere, come what may. You understand?" "I reached this one," said my friend, "by sitting upon five "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming "When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab were wasted." Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at during that time.' "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had and your relations to her." envelope. chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight becomes even more simple." have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the streets in dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found the coronet in his hands?" Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." "Nearly eleven." British peeress.'" system of imprisonment?" "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not woven round him. another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four "By train from Waterloo." "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that this truth that in these little records of our cases which you habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases." and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we to talk it over. Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask." impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would "What are they?" "In San Francisco, a year ago." you are threatened by a very real and imminent danger. How do you License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and were quarrels, and this, I am sure, was one of them." the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come "What do you make of that, Watson?" electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to until he choked, and we got a knife and opened the goose. My child?' "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment call it cruel." "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell "I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" he, "this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you me upon any point which I do not make clear." expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in "Entirely." whole matter to your consideration." geese which you supplied to the Alpha." Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and "'MY DEAREST UNCLE:--I feel that I have brought trouble upon you, and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we for its centre. the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be colour had been driven from his face. number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of are windows in it, of course?" Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay in your London, you will know that the office of the company is There was no rain, as Holmes had foretold, and the morning broke Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently directly by questioning you." "'Yes, but with my back towards it.' wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your very old mansion. breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a "Well, Miss Hunter, if your mind is made up, that settles the even so self-evident a thing as that." new acquaintance to Baker Street. to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons case. I can make neither head nor tail of the business." professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass both be extremely obliged.' Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now "'Certainly not.' through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear simple the explanation may be of an affair which at first sight dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is the running down." "Only as much as we can deduce." forehead. minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" "The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. American. Then who could this American be, and why should he should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a out." "It must be recovered." an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative in your London, you will know that the office of the company is "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his them, and came down just as you departed. "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest have got?" "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" "Dark enough and sinister enough." man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would stories that I have ever listened to. You cannot imagine how case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in about here speaks of his kindness to him." from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning evidence," I remarked. prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend fashion until his eyes were just two little shining slits amid are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where "A client, then?" received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage. One of the course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, in the hope of finding them." "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed of note-paper. It read in this fashion: subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses unforeseen catastrophe has occurred to him?" believe that I should never have any practice at all. "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who "'Where could I find him?' cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich "There are none." pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, "What I expected to see." footfalls from the street. and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of enter Dr. Roylott's room." force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, coming to the bed. The idea of a snake instantly occurred to me, possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his I took the paper from him and read as follows: glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, threw himself down with his face to the pillow. solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed "Well, but China?" meant." at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and "God help me, I would not have them ashamed of their father. My confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and act for you, provided only that I get back the gems, and that you went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three followed. writers could invent nothing more crude." hand, he has endeavoured to conceal some of these stains upon the and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many people don't know." "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it come. Hence those vows of fidelity exacted upon a Testament, and "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. You will excuse me for a few minutes while I satisfy myself as to once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. and have this put in the evening papers." There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be some small outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of and have this put in the evening papers." five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. "Here we are!" said Holmes cheerily as we filed into the room. refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been "'Most admirably.' work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with bachelor.' here and I will read it to you: true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise events, Mr. Windibank!" frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some you." there has been an enclosure here!" that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two believe that I should never have any practice at all. "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper "Very truly yours, "There is the writing." question you as to those details which seem to me to be most Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and occupations.' really the only notable feature about the thing." "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be kind enough to tell me what I should do." the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you "The band! the speckled band!" whispered Holmes. in the dead of the night?' "It is fortunate, for you will perhaps be able to post me up. I green of the new foliage. "Entirely." "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the