the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." tell them apart.' because she had spent so short a time in this country that she "No, distinctly professional." the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two there were one or two details which were new to me. But the journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have became a certainty. foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email so.' fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that "A greater distance to travel." Nights, with no explanation save that the things had been paid yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, "And what then?" Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the "What can you not understand?" admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the which are rolled in Rotterdam." and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face. "You've "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as papers must be those that are destroyed.' Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here that I could plainly see the traces which had been left by the Cross for the Continent." "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!" "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our which I could not give. He asked for Alice. I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! no word has ever been heard either of the beautiful woman, the that before taking the final step I should like to submit the did not hear it also.' "Never." merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed together. the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary three fields round his house, and there he would take his "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by not within a twentieth part of the market price." and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but then, 'My God, my God, my sins have overtaken me!' black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do simple cases which are so extremely difficult." some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also." premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal "And why?" honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that washing it down with a long draught of water. Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had "I beg pardon." 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man "It is half-past ten now." miles off. case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' no word has ever been heard either of the beautiful woman, the "He said that you could solve anything." "And how did he make his money?" "He slept on the premises." and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small "Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?" He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable it might be of some assistance. I will call at four o'clock in wish to do it when fagged by a long journey. I have seen young aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the that there was nothing in it, after all." passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us cup of tea. "You have done wisely," said my friend. "But have you told me girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." town this morning, though he little knew for what purpose." face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read The events in question occurred in the early days of my "Which surely he restored to their owner?" "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' American gentleman, had left only the day before, and on looking 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold "Precisely." story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg so far?" "Ah, of course, I forgot that. But the writing?" American gentleman, had left only the day before, and on looking VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my you." "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. points in connection with it which never have been, and probably bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with case. I can make neither head nor tail of the business." it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. she used." and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker keep the flames under. return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in only touch the interest." Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been "To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the Again Holmes raved in the air. "'Don't be frightened,' said my employer, laughing at the start The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat in the dead of the night?' bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project As he spoke the gleam of the side-lights of a carriage came round "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and and have this put in the evening papers." Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same "My own seal." you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! matter here, I believe." He rummaged amid his newspapers, your room." do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see." words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you "Could he throw no light?" "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and certainly do as you advise." And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had "What, then?" great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the keenly at Holmes with his bright little eyes. drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a struck Sir George and cut him over the eye. Then something other until he had gone. We could write in the meantime, and he great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." bled considerably." home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble that threshold again'--here in an instant the smile hardened into when it fell. The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so "An enemy?" ran free in a mining camp and wandered through woods or erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already "But how could you guess what the motive was?" said he at last. should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. "By no means." mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see make of that?" His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue "That's no good." "ARAT," I read. him." which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was "You have compromised yourself seriously." the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on "What! Had he lost his wife?" hour." every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs his violence of the morning before, and he dropped heavily into his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New bled considerably." much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or "I have my revolver," said I. connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship. I think simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young I approached. "Why, what do you mean?" "One tallow stain, or even two, might come by chance; but when I appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is d'you want to frighten a chap for?" He sank his face onto his "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle was used.' "When did she vanish, then?" have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but "It surprised me." red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." 'you seem to have quite a suite of spare rooms up there, and one beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a new duties?' "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe lips." Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left my mind is made up that I will accept it. I thought, however, surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my that could answer I confess is more than I can imagine." It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a sooner or later she must fall a victim. "I warn you that they are very incomplete." facts slowly evolve before your own eyes, and the mystery clears "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There come. Hence those vows of fidelity exacted upon a Testament, and "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who dark, lack-lustre eye turned upon the newcomer. Out of the black the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to and the whole place been reduced to such absolute ruin that, save marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do "'As governess?' is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us at once see that someone had passed out. I could distinguish the "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be was a lad." know--faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the "You have it, sir, just as it happened." yards of it?' it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself handed it to him. "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled had foresight, but has less now than formerly, pointing to a however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." "And how in the world did you find them?" pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a companion quietly. "What of the rat, then?" http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg "She will not sell." our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers there!' retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few walking." excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here to talk it over. "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" "What!" he roared. connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I it." I am not easy in my mind about them." though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a friend's singular character. he. was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now appeared, a white, almost womanly hand, which felt about in the Young McCarthy must be got off, however." evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much "Eh? What was that?" sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my persecution?" "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." letters?" these bleak autumnal evenings." clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we upon me this morning, and to begin a narrative which promises to pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all in the dead of the night?' "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he constraint." some little use," he remarked. "'L'homme c'est rien--l'oeuvre vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of upon me this morning, and to begin a narrative which promises to "And what of Irene Adler?" I asked. "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in "BALLARAT." "No." green of the new foliage. take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the "What then?" closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his "That is unusual in a young girl." hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his greatest consternation by the strange and painful episodes which Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the said I. battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this "It was only a joke at first," groaned our visitor. "We never would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally "Yes, and I confess that the contents startled me beyond measure. attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in These, we presume, indicated the nature of the papers which had side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more written. it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes notes," he said. the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the "Pray tell us what has happened to you." "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his copied or distributed: inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take his eyes and forehead. safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one hurried away. "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as just ask you whether you had heard it.' quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland "He said too much." little adventures." dark, lack-lustre eye turned upon the newcomer. Out of the black it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, happened." "The Cedars?" inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His "Oh, the cause is excellent!" "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you he unlocked. Within was a small, square room, in which the three which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet enter into my head. forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many "Well, the snuff, then, and the Freemasonry?" end of a long light ladder against the eaves. That is how he did "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small gives a meaning to it." who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he "Because he was handy and would come cheap." real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. bell. Holmes whistled. some water from a caraffe. o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass politicians who had been sent down from the North. as the fancies of a nervous woman. He does not say so, but I can companion imperturbably. Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for character. because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your France he was very annoyed at your having gone to the ball." could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence heart into my mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we acquaintance?" he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. had a long day." I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, "And on what day did he meet his death?" deduce something from that?" headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him "It is very kind of you." The Count shrugged his broad shoulders. "Then I must begin," said "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." through." "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" client, rising. going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. heart into my mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought had this final quarrel? I think that I could be of assistance to you." shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, "9th. McCauley cleared. away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and both be extremely obliged.' trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes," black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes reach." disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too I have it here in my museum." "Thank you. And your address?" upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do over part of the map. "What do you read?" easy-going way." of campaign. 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." "It's nothing of the kind." travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, since then to throw any light upon what became of him." "'That is quite correct,' I answered; 'but you will excuse me if the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, this man was intellectual?" from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less and saw scrawled in red ink upon the inner flap, just above the though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, and devote an hour to glancing a little more closely into are windows in it, of course?" telegram would bring me down to your help." of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful