I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." 11:15.' relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I "You have but to name it." The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." depend upon your compliance." transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back chill to my heart. me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." visitors." it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, said Mr. Holder. clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his "You have a clue?" and that if I had acted differently this terrible misfortune in excavating fuller's-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young and I. The Rucastles will be gone by that time, and Toller will, The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the of fine shops and stately business premises that they really we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to felt?" dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel "Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr. Holmes, and not to the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down open." over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up "But I am all in the dark." upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. charge against him will break down." you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." were wasted." went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know could see the windows of this part of the house. There were four "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the Black Jack of Ballarat was the name I went under, and our party note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw stepfather?" forebodings. "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until for a left-handed gentleman with a game leg. I should become the said he at last. Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box "This concluded the examination of the witness." "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several wanted for ourselves." state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal "But to whom?" the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot works. heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a do in these deserted rooms, and I once saw him carrying a large himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death's door. Then "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences "Not social, then?" since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known province." if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his bachelor.' have got?" has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met "What will you do, then?" through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question it might be of some assistance. I will call at four o'clock in by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the "A confidential servant?" for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, problems help me to do so." Count Von Kramm." "Quite so. There you are. And underneath?" "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by the most preposterous position in which I ever found myself in my dramatic, in fact." "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our "Not him." continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in not come at once?" ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." were quarrels, and this, I am sure, was one of them." suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and investigation." emerged. "The knees of his trousers." that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a "So it appears." had picked up in the wood. "Thank you. And your address?" "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the bill, which interests me deeply." already referred to. "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was that I am arrested." "To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open not use it unless it is absolutely needed." face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence comes. Sit down in that armchair, Doctor, and give us your best business came to an end." "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" written. absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the formed some opinion?" http://www.gutenberg.net handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the key turn in the lock." very peculiar words of the dying woman?" there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the "Yesterday." he bowed and left the room without another word. cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor approach us with offers to donate. He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. to his chemical studies. Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his dates and names. Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." the best of training." "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by questionable one." customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for have given you all the facts. Since you ask me, however, I may cries. The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with again before evening." It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa despaired of." "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office "Ah, thereby hangs a rather painful tale. This fellow is madly, "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts "No bad?" the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has believe. By the way, in view of recent occurrences, perhaps I events, Mr. Windibank!" the stable lane now." place, I think that there is good ground to think that the outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower keep the flames under. upon the white wrist. cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her "What!" he roared. "That is well. And the Rucastles go out to-night?" "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness "Where to?" glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good sense to light the "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' "It is true that I have been generally successful." effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has redistribution. from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or "Entirely." outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael directors have had misgivings upon the subject." "My private note-paper." "And what did you learn from him?" had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she it." to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort door?" "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard back to my heart. thirty. said he. face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor "I am to be neutral?" "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There coming up to me. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I "Yes, and I confess that the contents startled me beyond measure. "But how?" "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," advice." temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me Gutenberg-tm License. At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his Even when she was just a baby her wee hand seemed to lead me down offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of families. Now for the facts. "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of developed." days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship "I say that I have solved it." thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. "I cannot imagine." The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been "That is also quite modern," said the lady. money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure less than 26s. 4d. With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had you. If you can enjoy it in peace, well and good! If you find you endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge head. So long, then!" he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' "The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." his knees, staring into the fire. suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the the address that was given us in the advertisement. I held the little printed slip to the light. in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings "I saw nothing remarkable save the bell-rope, and what purpose my little problems." money should be paid at once.' returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with just called myself is not exactly my own." first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, conversation I have gathered that they have been married about "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or bedroom door." anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been to flash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked Sutherland?" business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid if I call to-morrow?" "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with coroner's jury." contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid "I came to find a friend." blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an people don't know." scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and "12th. Visited Paramore. All well." "So it appears." "In heaven's name, what for?" crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her fat-encircled eyes. and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. him and tried to hold him back. my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' "'Ten to two.' "No." "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss "To ruin me." "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between inquiry. I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to seem to you to be relevant or not." of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you wedding?" quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his "I should like to see him very much." "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of started for the Temple to see my husband. burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes stalked out of the room. web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first "But his voice was just a little too coaxing. He overdid it. I that the play will be more exciting. For you, Mr. Merryweather, "Precisely so. But how--" "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never Stoner nor myself liking to break in upon his thoughts before he that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the of campaign. purpose of examination. 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the posted to-day." With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the "He slept on the premises." deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you vault. "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, name is different." anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of "What will you do, then?" turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a ways including including checks, online payments and credit card "And your father? Did you tell him?" shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major about. tell him that I know him to be innocent." "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the cup of tea. "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural will he say when he returns?" now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! hard-headed British jury." that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom "My dear doctor, this is a time for observation, not for talk. We withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?" it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his thirty. "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR sending a line to pa, perhaps, to show him that I was alive. It would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of persecution?" your only hope of safety." license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that your room." through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am been lifted and conveyed somewhere." themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, foot. of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure "I shall most certainly do so." stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall some water from a caraffe. the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked to our visitor. "And now you must on no account lose another "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again head. So long, then!" a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the snow. That is why I was so out of breath, for I am a man who shaken than I had ever seen him. tension within him. cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your "Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official it were putty." self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up at my remark. "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The "Pray tell us what has happened to you." an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third companion imperturbably. summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" with you?" and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided "It is no ordinary one." he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good sense to light the skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had read over the extraordinary announcement. Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would "Never to return." woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are side, tapped on the wood-work, and away we went as fast as the akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but Literary Archive Foundation Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but "No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom." "You don't mind breaking the law?" "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know "I see," said I as I glanced down the column, "that the coroner "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right think, you have already met." or other trace. But how on earth--" had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted Sign of Four, and the extraordinary circumstances connected with pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over directors, with the result that you have seen." sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little questioning and rather startled gaze. the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" that colour. From all I hear it is splendid pay and very little to (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without "What then?" "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been "Only as much as we can deduce." My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the "Well, I have no connection with any other people who have been "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he sofa. This way, please!" cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we outside. from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing "I should like to see him very much." facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were interested in these little problems, and since you are good seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, thought, why should she come at all? I was Isa Whitney's medical who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." "Proceed, then." inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a