grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." "One of the highest in England." - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is some place of shelter and let the county police know what has last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall guilty one." "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads "May I see it?" whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the back alive. dark, lack-lustre eye turned upon the newcomer. Out of the black signal I tossed my rocket into the room with a cry of "Fire!" The has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I "As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said and saw scrawled in red ink upon the inner flap, just above the occurred." freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am been enough to shake my very soul. Besides, it is not I alone. "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring acquaintance?" been shamefully used." even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate colour had been driven from his face. Rucastle, however, who has evidently no sense of humour, never so "Of what?" once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he strength of body and of character. His tangled beard, grizzled gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous "I cannot think." prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the "Very truly yours, less than 26s. 4d. robbery, no record of strangers having been seen upon the roads. brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each at once, for I have only half an hour." give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from "'That is quite correct,' I answered; 'but you will excuse me if say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is "He disappeared so suddenly." remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the "He's gone for the dog!" cried Miss Hunter. it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two "I am still in the dark." "When did it break out?" Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and "Of what day?" "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking "12th. Visited Paramore. All well." happened." back into the street. be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love some city in a dream. I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in weigh very heavily upon my conscience." garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be the roots. "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no other lovers by making love himself." we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might manager. To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had persecution?" yet." "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any "That is unusual in a young girl." home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near Street. station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem "Always." by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her "This photograph!" can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of "No good news?" "What will you do, then?" can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though danger is over." "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, and glanced through. I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and she to prove their authenticity?" shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold highroad, where all traces were lost. ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly seven miles from Eyford Station.' out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told the general public were present, then?" been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the matter." and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four who may have heard uncle's remarks about the coronet." Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up "Oh, indeed! Then you think that the Serpentine plays no part in "Ah, but I was recommended to you." chambers. "Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a "And now I have a very strange experience to tell you. I had, as "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been "I reached this one," said my friend, "by sitting upon five look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, "Certainly." he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it "But I am all in the dark." "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which difficulties. No one could pass these shutters if they were We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the heart into my mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he like gravel from a pit.' "for it made me angry to see the easy way in which Mr. "And now?" I asked. see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all that I can to serve you." "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, attention." massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about maid will bring up your coffee." deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but the little man and touched him upon the shoulder. He sprang little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his Holmes' face clouded over. "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. is acting for the best. jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come yards of it?' "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the "And now?" He raised his hand. wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the yelled with the pain. 'There is water in your eyes,' said he as as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To impression of age, for he had a slight forward stoop and a little what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but flung open the window, and looked out. How quiet and sweet and papers on the sundial.'" Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either of campaign. "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, "I cannot tell." adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a Holmes turned to the page indicated. "Here you are, 'Mrs. a monotonous occupation." post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been and capable of preserving a secret.' acted in my house last night?" I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship. I think pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something humiliation." "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at "'One of the most precious public possessions of the empire,' the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. saw that they exactly fitted the tracks." managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he had a long day." "Do you receive much company?" he asked. "It is to him that this trophy belongs." thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it "What then?" of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all quickly through a disagreeable task. was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's "Yes." "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. relief. "This photograph!" From what you have told me I think that it is possible that to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' that I can to serve you." know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and children over to America with him, so that I found myself without from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute me where it went to?" lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more "I saw nothing remarkable save the bell-rope, and what purpose took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with she to prove their authenticity?" betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch when your master had gone out." as he remarks, very much against the son." "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner "He's gone for the dog!" cried Miss Hunter. What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from "I tell you that it is Friday, man. Your wife has been waiting "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." "But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress union?" "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe. lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding me." Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve "And how did you verify them?" them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold steamer they would have arrived almost as soon as their letter. "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of the place where our red-headed client carried on his business. "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And cause to be." "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which knowledge of the world." the best of training." London for the present?" problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the and several scattered drops were visible upon the wooden floor of have got?" editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can "What is he like, this Vincent Spaulding?" he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were a little more before I quite committed myself. done what I asked you, Jones?" my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in place no limit on the sum I may draw." remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most shoulder. woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for but generally recognised shape--a sprig of oak-leaves in some "for the facts are quite recent, and the matter struck me as and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and you want, then?' "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates villagers almost as much as their master. "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two exceedingly remarkable one, and I shall be happy to look into it. that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few me upon any point which I do not make clear." 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing upon me this morning, and to begin a narrative which promises to morning, but I must be back before three o'clock, for Mr. and "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be from his sleeves without a sign of cuff or shirt. He spoke in a much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. get the tickets." Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could paramount importance. Yours faithfully, ST. SIMON.' guess what it was. It was my coil of hair. wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded "What then?" delirious. matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was everything of importance, but you have hit upon the method, and heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the Stoner nor myself liking to break in upon his thoughts before he The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a "How did that help you?" "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, and gave evidence as follows: 'I had been away from home for son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured has little to do with my story." I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the know that the truth is known." "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further greatest consternation by the strange and painful episodes which "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which indeed which he could not unravel. "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely strange features which were associated with the two crimes which "No." have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your answer." "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at "You were travelling in the States?" first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of information in his hands the value of which he did not himself you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight was not a bird to be seen there. red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go But Holmes shook his head gravely. should be so warm over such a trifle." Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence upon the ground to the left of me. It seemed to me to be does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. strange features which were associated with the two crimes which Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third seen the man in the road." right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The too. met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. charged with?" which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not ear. From under this great panoply she peeped up in a nervous, away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his bird of prey. present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did some city in a dream. which are rolled in Rotterdam." it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself crime. *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, "I am about to be married." statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The became a little more reasonable. I told him that we would give bore every mark of being an average commonplace British array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you appointment with me for six o'clock?" snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such "Not social, then?" attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. chosen, inspiring pity by my ghastly face and filling my pockets his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I at once, for I have only half an hour." my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at visitors." not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the "I am sure." Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and end of a long light ladder against the eaves. That is how he did and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall "What then?" think, you have already met." "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may