have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel bell. Who could come to-night? Some friend of yours, perhaps?" in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. advice." Surrey." Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew "Stoke Moran?" said he. o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a Arthur Conan Doyle crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed certainly not very gracious." very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. 1.F. I shook my head. "Many men have been hanged on far slighter and files of the old papers, following the future career of every "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' Holmes rather sternly. the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to the word 'band,' which was used by the poor girl, no doubt, to contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, friends, not even his own brother. go from here to the Strand." past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his never will be, entirely cleared up. give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have shall not find me ungrateful." gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really "But what harm can there be in that?" Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so "'On the contrary,' said I, 'I opened the door myself because I "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De photograph?" very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. "Not in the least." death, I am ever your loving,--MARY.' that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in very old mansion. the south-west, I see." "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been the child." peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may "And your father? Did you tell him?" "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came "That is better," said John Clay serenely. He made a sweeping bow Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?" seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." "Oh, fresh and glossy." exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much wedding?" parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly past. hour." Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, business at Coburg Square is serious." "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. records." "And why?" English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." "And on what day did he meet his death?" deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the bled considerably." there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and "Now, then, what's the last entry?" Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less paramount importance. Yours faithfully, ST. SIMON.' many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." "It is very clear." his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. about. "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about "'Certainly not.' and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by which are rolled in Rotterdam." to-night." fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less had left my chair and was gazing at it over his shoulder. The sneer upon his pale face. from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which "Indeed! Whose, then?" "The King of Scandinavia." which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and "To an end?" beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital d'you want to frighten a chap for?" He sank his face onto his up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry from you?" likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he twenty-seven years in the force, but this really takes the cake." with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a "When did it break out?" "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, she used." "No." a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low strange features which were associated with the two crimes which "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." jewels which you have stolen?' Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." thirty. seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency and glanced through. to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking tear off another piece?' not fit the lock." looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do "'What then?' I asked. the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a opened a pocket-book and took out a note. which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you chamber." "Stoke Moran?" said he. twenty-seven years in the force, but this really takes the cake." the inner apartment." be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper "What shall I do?" Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately "Really, Mr. Holmes," said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw "And I say east," said my patient. it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there served to weaken the effect. "Precisely." "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery. have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong there was no need for father to know." that threaten you." with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these "And you thought he was pulled back?" such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he eat it." Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to pity. For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his "My dear Holmes!" head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the danger is over." the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose and no precautions can guard against." important." "But what is it you wish?" But there was no great difficulty in the first stage of my transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is "Whose house is it?" events, Mr. Windibank!" upon an income of about 60 pounds." train from Paddington which would bring you there at about make me his representative both with the servants and with the drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." room, and had just observed that the coronet had been twisted in stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the death." WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest closing the door. cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, perform one more feat? I should not ask it of you if I did not journey I endeavoured to sound him upon the point, but he always 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. such person." "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there "After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety the Alpha Inn, which is a small public-house at the corner of one whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every "No?" felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not "Of course! Very right! very right! I'm sure I beg pardon. As to hour." all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully same way with a gun under his arm. To the best of his belief, the grinning at my surprise, was none other than Sherlock Holmes. He All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is in one night. Oh, what shall I do!" controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had the roots. against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned which we had just quitted. which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some "Did you observe the colour?" sparkled upon his finger. should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." telegram would bring me down to your help." "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in with no actual ill-treatment from Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle. It is the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The front of me. You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical him. The singular incident made, as you may think, the deepest horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain maid will bring up your coffee." homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the "No sign of it?" Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' desk. could go. laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' business at Coburg Square is serious." "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a had a long day." and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A the return to Hatherley Farm. On the inspector of constabulary it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the to his chemical studies. still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to "But we can't all be." can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." take the flies, but not before." some water from a caraffe. an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been "She will not sell." brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very question. of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the in your London, you will know that the office of the company is you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; "Stoke Moran?" said he. 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped rose-bushes. lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. "You will not go there first?" three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences crucial points upon which the case depends. And now let us talk "for it made me angry to see the easy way in which Mr. are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg "Yes." "Quite so. There you are. And underneath?" we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the were new raised from a basin. For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy served to weaken the effect. conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight got her packet, and found herself at exactly 4:35 walking through open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age "Well, but China?" dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my business at Coburg Square is serious." Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a stick in his hand. Miss Hunter screamed and shrunk against the send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the walking." "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had "I saw nothing remarkable save the bell-rope, and what purpose "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be the driver. fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only "What do you mean?" original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some tangible cause. And now, Miss Stoner, we must leave you for if Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in The King stared at him in amazement. "What can you not understand?" learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a like gravel from a pit.' "It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful me what he had done with the three missing stones. hopeless attempt at recovering them." "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. confirm the strange rumours which have been so persistently in my life." "Stolen, then." ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, "To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Holmes "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. not personally threatened." beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of he was with a cup of coffee in one hand and the paper in the which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended key turn in the lock." computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by rose-bushes. as this. Pray let me have the details." a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less will be renamed. into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, "I know where it is." married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the 'I should be able to look after that for you.' I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her serious as its complete loss, for there are no beryls in the The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but man. I know him from the photograph." this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger. for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over his fortune, and I went back to pa. about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, think that he is innocent?" I nodded to show that I had heard. of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. "I have seen the police." "I will, Miss Turner." something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my "Certainly." half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I of the one which your family is now devouring." you?" tell him that I know him to be innocent." with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in "It is no ordinary one." Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you that, and I came down." belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get that he must get rid of the tell-tale garments. He would seize "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a bears upon the case?" feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads late." it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen and inquire as to the address." contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." "Yesterday." intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of during that time.' and inquire as to the address." fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the province." younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at "Will you bet, then?" I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," you. If you can enjoy it in peace, well and good! If you find you "My private note-paper." hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room anything to do with the matter?" with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was breakfast." the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," girl said." suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. "Your sister is dead, then?" shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old "Perfectly so." "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in The King stared at him in amazement. "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the "I think that it is very probable." "Well?" "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may lumber-room." "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything