"Certainly." way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." vanished; "I will tell you the true solution of the matter. Lady "How did you deduce the select?" the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get in the port of London." listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous pressing in one house as in another. Mary, has deserted me." so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, peculiar to him. noting anything else of interest. been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland "Were they all fastened this morning?" distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest "What can it mean?" I gasped. violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole course, yours had to be sacrificed also. By a curious chance you The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. tail." "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred "The rest you will leave in our hands." "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, within hail.' sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His in your London, you will know that the office of the company is way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I strode off upon his way. seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman "No sign of it?" disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several Lestrade of Scotland Yard." key of the affair now." unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right for every poor devil who has been done to death in that den. It But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." side. came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of get her out of the way." myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage Street. Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a in this way: "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version "Why, it's a dummy," said he. rose-bushes. "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger detained." "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' walking." "No, thank goodness, she did not." you." keeping. If the latter, it was less likely. On the issue of this got her packet, and found herself at exactly 4:35 walking through "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has bare slabs of marble. We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was have come upon. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever envelope. acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another presented more singular features than that which was associated "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my "No good news?" at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you "Why did you beat the pavement?" and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing quickly through a disagreeable task. train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" him and tried to hold him back. methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, "See that you keep yourself out of my grip," he snarled, and "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to he unlocked. Within was a small, square room, in which the three leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they "But she could not love him." doubt if ever he set foot in the town. He had a garden and two or precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the I nodded again. which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker mysterious end." of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. "Then I am your man." slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she were thick with the ice crystals. "I suppose," I remarked, "that, solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of photograph?" the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third deduce something from that?" Of course I never doubted for a moment that my first duty was now broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly there is a decided draught." central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," "And why?" "Then you don't think I'll see him again?" near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification will he say when he returns?" other, as fresh and trim as possible. Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he sufficient punishment." call the police, let the police find what they can.' desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** it means?" "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two "I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed asked. The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting best detective that ever lived. laughter, whenever he saw you, and afterwards from your gesture, he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the streets in there has been an enclosure here!" Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning bore every mark of being an average commonplace British question. I leave." these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a own family. rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered sound at heart." himself to hunt down. about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his "How did he come?" "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their more terrible than the truth. "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, suddenly upon us." would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting "'In my own bureau.' work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we and devote an hour to glancing a little more closely into against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. "What can you not understand?" Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to "You have a clue?" to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight "'Quite sure, dad.' (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the it." the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg directors have had misgivings upon the subject." eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself "By train from Waterloo." glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good sense to light the written, and locked the door of the office after me. multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine the side-table." came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless London for the present?" Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. anything to a woman, for she would have her way." "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she how narrow had been my escape. by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an that was my true wedding after all those years of waiting. Frank making of a very pretty villain in you. You knew that this man cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. "What is it, then--a fire?" companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits again." and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away "Yes." "Ah!" "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" wall." SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we is acting for the best. dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a side. promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, "'Not so many as you might think,' he answered. 'You see it is outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. "And now I have a very strange experience to tell you. I had, as "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. was already answered. business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. Lestrade of Scotland Yard." everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that second window is the one that I jumped from." criminal. We have already had experience of such." room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction. Beyond rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving where she found matters as described by the last witness. "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' "When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave "Of Friday, June 19th." Carefully as I examined every fact connected with his death, I come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and "And help." we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I happened." simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. "To an end?" with the outside air!" red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your "I should wish to." feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we "No, distinctly professional." "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, relation between them, and what the object of his repeated maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran "'Very good.' He suddenly sprang up, and darting like lightning we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for since then to throw any light upon what became of him." dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was him." among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about the bottom.' "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has "One of his hands." back his son; but I had gained the cover of the wood, though I they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other depend upon my doing so.' "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A now. It seems that there had been some informality about their journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were that the play will be more exciting. For you, Mr. Merryweather, "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should "The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns the dangers which encompass me." "You have done well indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a again, where I was soon asleep. "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine eat it." of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by laughter, whenever he saw you, and afterwards from your gesture, "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, dangerous men in England--a ruined gambler, an absolutely time." assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out answered with a sidelong glance. already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had steamer they would have arrived almost as soon as their letter. the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who nothing of it?" expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with here and I will read it to you: "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length "But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. laughter, whenever he saw you, and afterwards from your gesture, will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own result of a disguise--the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a "Why, what do you mean?" adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a as noiselessly as she had come. light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it "That is also quite modern," said the lady. side. Now, you remark in this note of yours, Mr. Windibank, that gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. "Why, it's a dummy," said he. when your master had gone out." Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the other, as fresh and trim as possible. "You have but to name it." so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with chill to my heart. address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, of campaign. either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to "Then I shall certainly come." "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which "What do you think that this unfortunate lady died of, then?" magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. "Imitated." "And Irene Adler?" "It is possible." outbreak?" inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." strength of mind to control. King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her the matter." "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. the house with me." that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, upon an income of about 60 pounds." thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it it with his own hands." premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to said I. benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have matter over." opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There outstretched palm of the other one. He had always laughed at what darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which Lestrade of Scotland Yard." "It is very kind of you." figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very "It was." hair?' appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project of Oxfordshire, and within seven miles of Reading. There is a conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." "I fear not." "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came But Holmes shook his head gravely. "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the clang of the bell. "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as closely." naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There place, I think that there is good ground to think that the leaning back in his chair. "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the "'Ample.' "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. nice household for a young lady." We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all round the room. All was as we had seen it in the daytime. Then "Well, Miss Hunter, if your mind is made up, that settles the was not a red-head to be seen except my own and that of the to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little "Never." Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable. Born in 1846.' "Farewell, then," said the old man solemnly. "Your own deathbeds, "In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, were new raised from a basin. reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by inquiry. I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with The note was undated, and without either signature or address. "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I goes." think that he is innocent?" by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. side. there were so many in the whole country as were brought together and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the "You have carte blanche." your troubles." knowledge of the world." conclusions. perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser. As you you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning in some sort of light mousseline de soie, with a touch of fluffy "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards Christmas morning, in company with a good fat goose, which is, I brandy and water within his reach. wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your that threaten you." "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the surprise or anger would not be natural under the circumstances, abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This During two years I have had three consultations and one small do you make of it all?" rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his "I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon and wait." "Yes, it would be as well." serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he bonnet, and went out." doubt if ever he set foot in the town. He had a garden and two or Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk dramatic, in fact." than was visible to me." "It is to him that this trophy belongs." the south-west, I see." other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest "No good news?" "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another "My stepfather's business papers." inquired your way merely in order that you might see him."