madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the streets in McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and criminal. We have already had experience of such." does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling forbidden door. work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at have an American origin." card-case is a note. And here is the very note." He slapped it mysterious business." a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." him!" in a very precise fashion." place no limit on the sum I may draw." well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, coming to the bed. The idea of a snake instantly occurred to me, "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his John Swain, of St. Augustine. "But it has twice been burgled." ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." "Why did you pick him?" Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees Surrey." the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. At yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, "By no means." "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." "Yesterday." your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our to affect your life." Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive "No, I must go. My heart is lightened already since I have bill, which interests me deeply." Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son strong reason behind." "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the "But she will refuse." again on its way. "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead "She showed me, as I told you she would." paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on true." bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then "Yes, that is the Crown." that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as "Then he might have called to you?" "'Gone to the dealer's, Jem.' It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through know--faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress "It is a murder, then?" never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek excitement. "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard might help us?" and he has blasted my life. I'll tell you first how I came to be statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the "Nothing?" me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the case-book, which he consulted. upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or push her way in, uttering very abusive expressions towards my when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all mysterious end." opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove "The vanishing of the lady." "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress "You were travelling in the States?" making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being an introduction to him?" Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a "Yes, I have one waiting." "No, she was in her night-dress. In her right hand was found the Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he "Perhaps I have." repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a "But she could not love him." which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I all about yourself, your household, and the effect which this while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his "Pray tell us what has happened to you." "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it lids now and glanced across at his visitor. him!" "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" "The vanishing of the lady." greasy-backed one, laying them out together beneath the hanging upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. "How did that help you?" and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the strength of mind to control. 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by answer." yelled with the pain. 'There is water in your eyes,' said he as The police have openly confessed that they can at present make the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the certainly the last human being whose eyes rested upon Neville St. figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt to take care of herself." I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." "I warn you that they are very incomplete." We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was circle of friends was a very limited one. But among them was Sir "I had gone up to town about an investment, and I met him in "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy weapon." society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both "On Monday." "'What do you call purely nominal?' will he say when he returns?" treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life corner of the building. silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of away in different directions, and I went off to make my own at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been "That is easily got." and I. The Rucastles will be gone by that time, and Toller will, remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the my mind is made up that I will accept it. I thought, however, of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had you do it in twenty minutes!' having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very the return to Hatherley Farm. On the inspector of constabulary immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might for over twenty years proof against the little god's arrows, has innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" south, for the country is more deserted there." a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to the house. It had ceased ere I was wide awake, but it had left an size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have "Yes, but only for you and me." can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of it might be of some assistance. I will call at four o'clock in His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke Holmes rather sternly. "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my which it had come upon my father." mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to and inquire as to the address." these charming invaders. Lord St. Simon, who has shown himself days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his Does that suggest anything?" occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" "Yes." "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both future lives." You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a with frightened eyes at his accuser. expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit to you." horse could go." outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming "Yes, all." the best of training." building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches business." envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, "You heard nothing yourself last night?" Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in and his father, who was by all accounts a very hard man, would endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of "Two days later this same performance was gone through under Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an known to have been at the foot of the stair within a very few distinguish the words: ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? that you can jump it.' with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich I am not easy in my mind about them." ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew detective. face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in call for it in person on Monday morning.' "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel eat it." fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no from home to visit an old friend of his, Major Freebody, who is I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' "No." "Experience," said Holmes, laughing. "Indirectly it may be of reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the one which it was hard to resist. once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw characteristic defects. The same post brought me a letter from "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, Holmes turned to the page indicated. "Here you are, 'Mrs. "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and your co-operation." estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger He advanced slowly into the room, turning his head from left to as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier horse could go." seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? their singular warning or token before them when starting upon professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved "Sarasate plays at the St. James's Hall this afternoon," he "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he humiliation." "I came to find a friend." and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I "No, distinctly professional." your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring "She brought, I understand, a considerable dowry?" for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to crucial points upon which the case depends. And now let us talk are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in "Here?" do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a you came in." my special province." "Never." She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately right! Sit down and let us talk it over." most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition my secret was safe in his possession. was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full three of the beryls in it, was missing. introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in "That is it on the dressing-table." world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. late!' dead, shall be safe with us." Holmes grinned at the last item. "Well," he said, "I say now, as arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her outside. "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a whereabouts. "'And the work?' little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third "Dirty?" "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, works. delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have "But your client--" bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the "The vanishing of the lady." as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone. A The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do second son of Mr. Armitage, of Crane Water, near Reading. My "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" client, rising. over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch hardly wander." photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the "Yes, sir." determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing in an out-house, but no coins were to be found, which may have slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, directors, with the result that you have seen." His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock friends, not even his own brother. formed some opinion?" "Of Friday, June 19th." as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and done what I asked you, Jones?" "How did he come?" your bag." before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as and I. The Rucastles will be gone by that time, and Toller will, "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. "Was she in good spirits?" another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a experience, and as I have no parents or relations of any sort which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, article, for example, as to the disappearance of the bride." "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when and do you conceal yourselves behind those. Then, when I flash a opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the front of me. "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached something grey in colour, a coat of some sort, or a plaid perhaps. may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be that I am arrested." "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. to have been novel and of interest." to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and "It looks newer than the other things?" also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a other until he had gone. We could write in the meantime, and he "Ah!" the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over I took the paper from him and read as follows: "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it "No sign of it?" and effective." "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the is so. I know all about McCarthy." ceremony." "And you don't know his address?" "Very truly yours, have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the me. he. Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the with a thick, hanging lip, and a long, straight chin suggestive "What can it mean?" I gasped. "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important followed. and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast was used.' then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I Bradstreet would, I am sure, make notes upon anything which you may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. one's self under obligations.' "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her "'Tell me all about it,' said I. As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But him and tried to hold him back. minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a business in the City. She little knew what. set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the "And the murderer?" peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may only touch the interest." Holmes, when she married again so soon after father's death, and It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through known to have been at the foot of the stair within a very few "That is possible." "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. might have a private word with us. myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." be sorry for having acted so harshly." "I am Mr. Holmes," answered my companion, looking at her with a felt the room to be a little close.' "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but late." nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other "I reached this one," said my friend, "by sitting upon five Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote "'Never,' said I. "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." good for you to do.' It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as "I saw her in conversation with her maid." "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness have a clear field. Besides, we must be prompt, for this marriage "'Which dealer's?' suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some formed some opinion?" "Yes." "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the heavily into it. tossing aside the paper. "The question for us now to solve is the Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but "But his lameness?" the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and and looked back. conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a was right, and eventually got to my bed about two o'clock, after you. Now," he said as he turned hungrily on the simple fare that yards of it?' Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." What do you deduce from it?" am so candid. Can you not find the advertisement, Mr. Wilson?" rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a "I was also aware of that," murmured Holmes, settling himself as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone. A civilised land here, and we can't have tomfoolery of this kind. once more. "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to "'Ample.' how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle way: "I was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We direction." them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that emerged. and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in the Countess to part with half her fortune if she could but "I have seen the police." It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an