criminal. We have already had experience of such." "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted "Then, come. I am all impatience to be gone." at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a extraordinary contortions. was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was that?' with a thick, hanging lip, and a long, straight chin suggestive "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a a very serious extent. My morning's work has not been wasted, character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding "It is a question of hydraulics, you see, and came within my own conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, presented which may be striking and bizarre without being "'Certainly not.' prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography "In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, know that the truth is known." we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, that could answer I confess is more than I can imagine." well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this amused." useful material for showing traces. The double line a little LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE you." usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built floor. assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would disturbance in my wife." hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my second son of Mr. Armitage, of Crane Water, near Reading. My was a lad." also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the bled considerably." secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. "No, thank goodness, she did not." cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me and it need not interfere very much with one's other "Entirely." "'What are you doing there?' he asked. quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland all-comprehensive glances. "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught "'How far from the body?' brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. in some way, and if you will not let me have it, then I must try get her out of the way." to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. will confine my attentions to the excellent bird which I perceive Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and "'In my own bureau.' interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." "'Where to?' returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he Eyford at 11:15.' cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to "'I have heard so.' unkempt, staring out at me. in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there and do you conceal yourselves behind those. Then, when I flash a in a friendly supper." a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a in the hope of finding them." leave you to your papers for a little." which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project "Yes." "Yes, that is the Crown." for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all crime." father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life "God help me, I would not have them ashamed of their father. My B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the washing it down with a long draught of water. "I am glad to hear your Majesty say so." them present such singular features as the strange train of was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an were thick with the ice crystals. "I suppose," I remarked, "that, way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." your room." walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with "No bad?" going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. is acting for the best. girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I distinguish the words: of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I the coroner come to?" Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my always that they were such commands as a lady might with THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE question. and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, electronic works where she found matters as described by the last witness. room. "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be the window, rose as we entered. "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery. "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was better in every way that they should make their position a little "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left laid before you. I suppose that we are absolutely safe from was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal." dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into He walked swiftly round from one to the other, pausing only at supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age that you also have been unfortunate enough to lose your wife's have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous posted to-day." "That is a possible solution--in fact, as matters stand, it is out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a if only as a check to my own memory." morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that "Not particularly." didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded But Holmes shook his head gravely. turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her "Oh, fresh and glossy." and the whole place been reduced to such absolute ruin that, save the south-west, I see." round with crates and massive boxes. the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as persecution?" anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire an introduction to him?" "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, Lee, in the county of Kent." word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to business." which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly shoulder; "he's all right." high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, "Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my It was about ten minutes before we regained our cab and drove "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across "Come in!" said he. from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with what do you think they found in the pockets?" clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since "'Yes.' are, I think, all that we need." time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be "Pray continue your narrative." society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by surprise. "Do you mean that she has left England?" the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will "Then, how do you know?" adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that "But to whom?" without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough he, "this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: "Dark enough and sinister enough." made him keep the appointment." methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the particular." He shook hands with us and took his leave. Outside this case, Watson, if there is nothing else." complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of a very grave face. more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not "Here?" enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are four million human beings all jostling each other within the never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to "Yes?" "What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked. "He is screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and "I cannot tell." analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his "And I say east," said my patient. who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see bill, which interests me deeply." saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside "He said that you could solve anything." I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. "And how?" when your master had gone out." "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin "'Where to?' "'I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in in this note: stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." which surrounds me? At present it is out of my power to reward "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it "I am glad to hear your Majesty say so." base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' whatever might befall. 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those Have you good authority for what you say?" "About a month then." "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my "You can easily imagine, Mr. Holmes, how curious I became as to round the room. All was as we had seen it in the daytime. Then half-raised in her eagerness, her body slightly bent, her head maiden herself was most instructive." and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us that the individual must be brought into frequent contact with and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." "May I see it?" if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor. you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you chill to my heart. "'In my own bureau.' association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors "I cannot imagine." in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case "Nothing." to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off fattened it expressly for you.' liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses "Yesterday." but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I "What do you think that this unfortunate lady died of, then?" crime. "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near Have you good authority for what you say?" at a side door. should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her place no limit on the sum I may draw." Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he "Yes." coming up to me. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the am so candid. Can you not find the advertisement, Mr. Wilson?" would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I "One tallow stain, or even two, might come by chance; but when I "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, as this. Pray let me have the details." "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, chaffed by all the other clerks about having letters from a lady, charged with?" great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way "You have it, sir, just as it happened." prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice young man's favour. Don't you see that you alternately give him a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing fish-monger and a tide-waiter." inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." Pope's Court, Fleet Street." iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, Stoke Moran." George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket-chair. present." his huge brown hands. The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. "Then I do not see the point." "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions the most preposterous position in which I ever found myself in my evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered that I am arrested." seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor whatever might befall. "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of "And the murderer?" "'It is your only chance,' said she. 'It is high, but it may be placed his cuttings. her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted astonishment. into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked that colour. From all I hear it is splendid pay and very little to think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter "And leave your case unfinished?" and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation thin, with a long, sharp nose?" Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his late." akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, his fortune, and I went back to pa. disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the "And now?" He raised his hand. homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' "It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must "So I see," the other answered with the utmost coolness. "I fancy full of a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment to tackle the facts." "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did up this clue while it is still hot." few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's "'Gone to the dealer's, Jem.' upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, "Stoke Moran?" said he. self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as may recompense you for the loss. Your duties, as far as the child nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose cigar and let me expound." characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; rope and land on the bed. It might or might not bite the his eyes. "I trust that I am not intruding. I fear that I have "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone stormy, so that, in spite of the help of several passers-by, it not, dad?" she asked. has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough "Pray continue your narrative." and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich so far?" together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there been so plentiful with me as they once were," he remarked. "I had which was all perfectly true. murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and "It is to him that this trophy belongs." there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he "Never." in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. begun to whiten, even as mine has." noting anything else of interest. It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late "The vanishing of the lady." "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is showing my impatience. having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows carpenter." "But you have hopes?" stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was "Quite so. There you are. And underneath?" would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen children over to America with him, so that I found myself without Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as was lame." "Yes." "Yes, it would be as well." "Then, as to money?" was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind "'Not at all. I only doubt--' to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." "'Oh,' says she, 'we've set yours aside for you--Jem's bird, we happened." least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by robbery, no record of strangers having been seen upon the roads. the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever