was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his his huge brown hands. "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the them?" "Your sister is dead, then?" myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled him to be an active member of the medical profession." narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling the side-table." "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at "This is the girl's stepfather, Mr. James Windibank," said http://www.gutenberg.net goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will "I see," said I as I glanced down the column, "that the coroner for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and round and wave him away like that.' princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the hopeless attempt at recovering them." has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white paper in the air. house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than DAMAGE. colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect "Yes, it would be as well." error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." hour?' "Won't it ring?" Street. "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have from the brougham. waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time "Absolutely?" layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some "I assure you that I am in your hands." sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his that you can jump it.' "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." "Nothing?" no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is wall." had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I of Fenchurch Street." methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding From what you have told me I think that it is possible that my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was indiscretion." peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, with the and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. We had the carriage to ourselves save for an immense litter of one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab away into the river." but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt that there was nothing in it, after all." just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us These, we presume, indicated the nature of the papers which had admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect his cane at the bell-pull. "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I father's place of business?" walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. if she died from some sudden fright." ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the the honeymoon; but I cannot call to mind anything quite so prompt handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' "Let me see!" said Holmes. "Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend "I believe that he is coming here," said Holmes, rubbing his me, and I could not think that his explanation of the weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: Merryweather is a bank director, and personally interested in the total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic him!" "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they it is hardly safe and should be stopped.' "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." experiences." public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely Does that suggest anything?" heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has voice, changing her seat as requested. the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; man. I know him from the photograph." "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old "Breckinridge is his name." disappearance of these gems?" Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." "'Yes, sir.' gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." questionable one." "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon "And you did very wisely," said Holmes. "Your case is an "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs your sleep?' my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all "'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered. it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up Henry Baker is a member." has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came them?" eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at Miss Holder?" was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which to surprise her." closing the door. "'And what salary do you ask?' caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your "But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a "No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire 1.E.9. "But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go. What do you think, since then to throw any light upon what became of him." way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker DISSOLVED. by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in it is hardly safe and should be stopped.' neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of tapping his fingers upon the table. of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in furiously. course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every I should send him away to his death--!" He sprang from his chair business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I "12th. Visited Paramore. All well." reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what "The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. papers diligently of late, have you not?" have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" keeping. If the latter, it was less likely. On the issue of this "Nor running a chance of arrest?" their mission. You see how quickly the deed followed the sign 1.E.9. attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, "Was the window open?" however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to the mornings. Besides, I knew that my assistant was a good man, "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our "And how?" "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. "It is fortunate, for you will perhaps be able to post me up. I a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with note?" I approached. pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at at my own good fortune. "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the habit of advancing money.' days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, from the brougham. accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without "The best possible." house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your over his head with a sweet womanly caress. and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not own family. "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square down from London to inquire more deeply into it." "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use "I have solved it." as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a my mind is made up that I will accept it. I thought, however, lumber-room." "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the and put his glass in his pocket. me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little "I would give my fortune to have them back." of." been deceived." was a lad." astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day what these perils are?" "I will do it." clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his wedding?" in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of "Your sister is dead, then?" He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at confirm the strange rumours which have been so persistently while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their floor. American. Then who could this American be, and why should he without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence you?' Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of fasten all the windows?" a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a I was concerned in it." up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger. came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He skylight. "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a matter." and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand "'It is your only chance,' said she. 'It is high, but it may be Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you your sleep?' before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm bled considerably." "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat visitors." down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?" that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was is now desirous of getting those letters back." his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at the armchair which I pushed forward for him. coat-tails." only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost "The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than some place of shelter and let the county police know what has suspect him." "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been place, I think that there is good ground to think that the is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out the south-west, I see." "And why in hopes?" scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream rat could hardly pass through." to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused and that if I had acted differently this terrible misfortune a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss official police." away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a "But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, interest. They are important, you understand, without being delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, reach." overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was children over to America with him, so that I found myself without still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" and he has blasted my life. I'll tell you first how I came to be expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is Do you not see some loophole, some flaw? Do you not yourself think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the whether it answered to the description of any of their and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for be best to do. a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but right! Sit down and let us talk it over." "I am armed." "'Surely it would be better to take no notice.' cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four room. the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have "Yes." and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you "One horse?" interjected Holmes. garments, and there were no other traces of Mr. Neville St. paper in the air. glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a question," said Holmes, smiling. see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in voice. one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a in command of one of the forts upon Portsdown Hill. I was glad "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right are, and they are waiting for us." least a fellow-countryman. he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. next day. scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of coat-tails." "No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom." poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, came talking something or other about Lord St. Simon to that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and "'Certainly not. But why?' of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up McCarthy's innocence. dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one "I should wish to." of Oxfordshire, and within seven miles of Reading. There is a my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was floor. "Yes, sir. I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if "Then the page we have seen--" "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low with no actual ill-treatment from Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle. It is "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, go--none." "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had paramount importance. Yours faithfully, ST. SIMON.' subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily which are rolled in Rotterdam." breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint "Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr. Holmes, and not to "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds "'Most admirably.' flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us. and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" charged with?" chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in again before evening." out of this horrible affair." "I have seen the police." to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of remarked. brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally in one night. Oh, what shall I do!" is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar living on the ground-floor, and I asked him if he could tell me there has been an enclosure here!" gives a meaning to it." himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an of his shoulders. I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the "Murdered?" "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, "What steps will you take?" I asked. stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. society." while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of information in his hands the value of which he did not himself passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of to tackle the facts." - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of "I have my revolver," said I. "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on "I never have." trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" detective. The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and retorted upon me, and I on you." expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without these charming invaders. Lord St. Simon, who has shown himself midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my and files of the old papers, following the future career of every and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the hereditary King of Bohemia." is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, crime. "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to