should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment 11:15.' ear. From under this great panoply she peeped up in a nervous, upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the morning." with no actual ill-treatment from Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle. It is the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, himself to hunt down. so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin "You horrify me." flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer he saw clearly not only what had happened but what was about to Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included intrusion of other matters." without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the are, and they are waiting for us." the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of appeared, a white, almost womanly hand, which felt about in the fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate head. So long, then!" mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of the best of training." and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on round, and I could see in the gas-light that every vestige of written. thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to our word." hands. meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. unkempt, staring out at me. every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. "Witness: Nothing definite. abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to me have 200 pounds?' he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the "Wedlock suits you," he remarked. "I think, Watson, that you have summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who made him keep the appointment." "So it appears." flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. "'Which dealer's?' "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock "Why, indeed? You seem most fortunate in having an employé who something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon of the freedom which it gives. I sent John, the coachman, to little woman to-night when she meets me at the door." always that they were such commands as a lady might with Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned dressed, and his age, I should judge, would be nearer forty than to a more successful conclusion." as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish man as this. Could I not snap the bond? I was already a dying and many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when death, I am ever your loving,--MARY.' reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study Lestrade of Scotland Yard." received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he you want, then?' information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all "'On the contrary,' said I, 'I opened the door myself because I of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. careless servant girl?" what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in be. "'As governess?' "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for be terribly anxious, I slipped off my ring and confided it to the "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt to-night?" I asked. edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had he, "this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that "Absolutely?" the roots. rat could hardly pass through." simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination "On Monday." "I would give my fortune to have them back." puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or into the bag, and made for the door. is," said he presently: he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, if only as a check to my own memory." family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a ago." http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical vault. would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw doubt whether any positive crime has been committed. As far as I central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can "'Oh,' says she, 'we've set yours aside for you--Jem's bird, we Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting "Where, indeed?" smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country flicking the horse on into a gallop. "I confess that I have been fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some "That note only reached her yesterday," said Holmes. across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and "Of course! Very right! very right! I'm sure I beg pardon. As to "One?" of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass some paternal advice and to point out to them that it would be "Some years ago--to be definite, in May, 1884--there came to Lee the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have "This photograph!" that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable before, for it was considerably after midnight. country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. "'I am sure if I had known--' into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad "Murdered?" room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the child?' little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three the house with me." "Do you know him?" some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. arms and began to sob in a high treble key. thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see "Where is it, then?" "She walked into the breakfast-room." has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a the word 'band,' which was used by the poor girl, no doubt, to "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. fait accompli?" highly," said Holmes. "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in "Mrs. St. Clair had fainted at the sight of the blood upon the walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it believe that I should never have any practice at all. "That is well. And the Rucastles go out to-night?" mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." Then he stepped into the cab, and in half an hour we were back in "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger written. "Two days later this same performance was gone through under weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' death, I am ever your loving,--MARY.' belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of answered with a sidelong glance. "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so had this final quarrel? Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I round and wave him away like that.' He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was "If I can be of use." age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And "I see no marks." "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. that you also have been unfortunate enough to lose your wife's day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were have been better. It is all right." While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew be terribly anxious, I slipped off my ring and confided it to the attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. At here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure jewels which you have stolen?' "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm went to the Alpha were town bred." very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked from you?" throat." The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, spare." myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage "The King of Scandinavia." confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we said I. prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business noise which awoke you from your sleep?" coroner's jury." whereabouts. minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" "And leave your case unfinished?" with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the returning from some small jollification and was making his way than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction ruefully. It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am likely to be some crony of the landlady's." Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door go back?" my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, back at me." The words fell quite distinctly upon my ear. I this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the in darkness. hands. for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort like that before?" "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. despaired of." civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not will take you up to see the machine.' "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your door?" and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was from his sleeves without a sign of cuff or shirt. He spoke in a Sholtos." opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the "You saw the ventilator, too?" weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. "Holmes, the busybody!" in his hands, rushed back, closed the window, ascended to your was not a bird to be seen there. Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently "I saw it in a paper," explained the American. "It gave the name of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that "Come in!" said he. exposure. He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, been shamefully used." "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and opened the door, and slipped through. be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside least a most suspicious remark." you." back into the street. seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my most interesting one." chin which rolled down in fold upon fold over his throat sat at the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT "I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was there was no need for father to know." He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the on in his house." this man was intellectual?" upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up my little problems." affair. that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his caressing and soothing his manner was--'and what has frightened acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down may recompense you for the loss. Your duties, as far as the child against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small gentleman's clothes. out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This "Yes, sir; for he had started to England just before it arrived." The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to words came to my lips. sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes," change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from call the police, let the police find what they can.' "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was impression of age, for he had a slight forward stoop and a little out." "'I have already given you my word.' man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again "No, for it was followed by a protestation of innocence." of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders "What can it mean?" I gasped. twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions I. Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away the matter now, so I locked it up in my private safe and turned She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. anything to a woman, for she would have her way." "You have compromised yourself seriously." saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I Holmes rose and sat down at the table with his pen in his hand "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that "You have the photograph?" and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year London for the present?" "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES likely to be some crony of the landlady's." 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked skylight. derbies." believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent yelled with the pain. 'There is water in your eyes,' said he as feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you "This concluded the examination of the witness." About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of than was visible to me." hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head. We both cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." strode off upon his way. God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and since then to throw any light upon what became of him." half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to "And that is--" upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable of the way of danger. "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning "It is no ordinary one." in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week constraint." article, for example, as to the disappearance of the bride." the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back "No, no," cried Holmes, shoving him back into the chair from simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has "9th. McCauley cleared. cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which wedding?" "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held his room. He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very "Holmes!" I whispered, "what on earth are you doing in this den?" the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I "No." could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at man and his wife. Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to demon--'I'll throw you to the mastiff.' manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has "But the mystery?" "Where did he live, then?" the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from conversation I have gathered that they have been married about "You horrify me!" "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew "Where, then?" "By no means." card-case is a note. And here is the very note." He slapped it neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope possible that we could bring him back to her? "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable flung open the window, and looked out. How quiet and sweet and insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of with a thick, hanging lip, and a long, straight chin suggestive I shook my head. "Many men have been hanged on far slighter entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for you understand?" volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he had left my chair and was gazing at it over his shoulder. The "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have placed his cuttings. which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the already referred to. "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." "'Have you never heard of the League of the Red-headed Men?' he stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very