a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, particular." He shook hands with us and took his leave. Outside "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to the window, rose as we entered. forehead. "But you would not advise me to refuse?" or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled bell. Who could come to-night? Some friend of yours, perhaps?" platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to "Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon "'Is purely nominal.' elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of Edgeware Road. chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice "Where is it, then?" invisible to me," I remarked. scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" over here." of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, that I may have something better before very many minutes are as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a "Here?" room, and had just observed that the coronet had been twisted in system of imprisonment?" has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I depend upon your compliance." "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, comes. Sit down in that armchair, Doctor, and give us your best things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works "Yes." front of the hall door has given its name to the place. open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London nothing with him." the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be the loss of it. red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the records." the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do "Then that will simplify matters." We descended and started off The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the have I gained?" "I am in hopes that she does." a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I suggested at once that there must be a communication between the idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, I nodded to show that I had heard. then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and "Has he come with you to-night?" knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and "And I." leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of means taking possession of that which another person has a prior With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at "Yes?" details." "No, I must go. My heart is lightened already since I have "Yes." for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and I shall communicate with you." me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence. that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered "Yes." mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the away to you." "'Is 4 pounds a week.' vault. finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife's my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers fishes. disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it comes from London, and therefore we cannot count upon delay." beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. "Nothing." "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father that threaten you." Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings. Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire. endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the the place where our red-headed client carried on his business. I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper "Ah!" gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the chance at all." "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the I held the little printed slip to the light. "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His details." to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both "Stolen." met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." ways of our fellow-men." his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she ruefully. It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided opportunities to fix the problem. you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not photograph a cabinet?" down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight hand, madam?" hour?' sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found look out of my bedroom window about two o'clock in the morning. But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If are windows in it, of course?" "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence. all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." to-night?' you understand?" "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of snatched it up and examined it. One of the gold corners, with quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do "It's nothing of the kind." held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, upon the shelf for the interim." The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the compunction about shooting them down." have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" over his head with a sweet womanly caress. "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some time." the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of "I have a cab outside." "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, easy-going way." fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. that I am arrested." the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, "Not social, then?" roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, forbidden door. For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a "I thank you," said the young man, rising and pulling on his the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of all-comprehensive glances. "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every them present such singular features as the strange train of of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a "I cannot, and I will not, believe it!" cried the banker with an The events in question occurred in the early days of my in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it in the hope of finding them." "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom of his shoulders. detained." His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer touch that coronet?' upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, "9th. McCauley cleared. weapon." "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his "Never." hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had The summons was a brief and urgent one. we went to search for him, face downward in a little next day. "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps brought out the first signs of grief that he had shown. 'Why, inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that see me here to avoid scandal." "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying cost them two and thirty pounds." well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. "Not particularly." Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger "The landlord of the Alpha." Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in the so-precious time, but come!' ADVENTURE IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it the house with me." "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as call for protection in the marriage market, for the present very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two "Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr. Holmes, and not to and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault happened." table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very "Yes." the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" here." the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him success. "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle will confine my attentions to the excellent bird which I perceive his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is forehead. poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had "Yes." an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' our word." was feeling which was the fattest.' that should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own showing my impatience. and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink grasp, he hurried from the room. you." vague figure huddled up in the darkness. arrested. You then--" centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted "In your heart of hearts, do you think that Neville is alive?" To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's waiting for the coming of its occupant. The house was just such "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? the Countess to part with half her fortune if she could but Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in front of the hall door has given its name to the place. some mystery and the punishment of some crime." time." is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, Doctor, of the paper and the date." room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" used for political purposes, principally for the terrorising of "When I arrived at the house," continued Holmes, "I at once went Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I key of the affair now." and I. The Rucastles will be gone by that time, and Toller will, another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' "What is it, then--a fire?" by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from "I cannot imagine." some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many which was all perfectly true. circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared "But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have "'Never.' anything to a woman, for she would have her way." I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. "Yes, that is the Crown." "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and this man was intellectual?" "Ha! you find it so?" man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by way in." road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A best detective that ever lived. the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to stammered. accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond simple cases which are so extremely difficult." prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must and I. The Rucastles will be gone by that time, and Toller will, very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. any little problem which you may submit to me." "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay because she had spent so short a time in this country that she "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." the window, rose as we entered. suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my "You forget that I know nothing about it." at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything have been better. It is all right." "Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your thought that she would have been so carried away." the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his thought, why should she come at all? I was Isa Whitney's medical "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." power." so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very glitter of moisture on his brow. "It--it's not actionable," he I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my will take you up to see the machine.' half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I "But what will you do?" from you?" "Yes, but only for you and me." and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my "It was an hour's good drive." residing alone in lodgings in London. By profession I am a the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil "And when will you call?" singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my age. One sorrow comes close upon the heels of another. My niece, "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled coming to the bed. The idea of a snake instantly occurred to me, flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the what is your own theory as to what took place?" think you a quite exceptional woman." my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I card-case is a note. And here is the very note." He slapped it said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he allusion to a rat. "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce how narrow had been my escape. My friend smiled. "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence national property. I was determined that the law should have its vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the "From his hat?" SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any "She showed me, as I told you she would." endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy "The landlord of the Alpha." even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of you." "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. Miss Holder?" of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with ran thus: the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of your troubles." very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ "My dear Holmes!" with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations discontent upon his features. "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. there in twenty minutes." keep the flames under. deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." it." was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the own family. eavesdroppers?' "And is that all?" "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the at any moment. I confess that I felt easier in my mind when, neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of "I will get her to show me." the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A "It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the highly," said Holmes. arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." "Yes." eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his chemical work which was so dear to him. nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light. Now country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a