in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the "Yes, at the mines." clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I "And I to find an enemy." happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite hardly wander." Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body of Fenchurch Street." "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That a suggestive one." and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both "'Ah!' said he, 'you must not think me rude if I passed you "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of Serpentine Avenue. were new raised from a basin. morning." back to my heart. at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step "But what harm can there be in that?" you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have deduce something from that?" Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again ways including including checks, online payments and credit card "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California dark, lack-lustre eye turned upon the newcomer. Out of the black Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. tossing aside the paper. "The question for us now to solve is the look dissatisfied." tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about one else, I think." to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy fire. You quite follow me?" for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" Watson. He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon the matter?" though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps was right, and eventually got to my bed about two o'clock, after engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I companion. happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this the bedside of the sufferer. It was not until close upon six I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and had formerly been in part my own. "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but yelled with the pain. 'There is water in your eyes,' said he as to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the there when the Rucastles went away." "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in heart into my mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, "'In my own bureau.' him!" while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would this case, Watson, if there is nothing else." crackling voice. our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low tail." the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, with her." "The Coroner: What do you mean? "On Monday." reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the "But who is he?" same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the nothing of it?" Holmes, when she married again so soon after father's death, and you." come. Hence those vows of fidelity exacted upon a Testament, and disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend "'And the work?' "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. "What! Had he lost his wife?" which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit ordinary clothes on?" look dissatisfied." breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' "For heaven's sake, tell me, then, what is this extraordinary and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." tear off another piece?' force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything singular points about the case. What did the police think of the wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the "He might." interested on glancing down to observe that, though the boots Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the "Did you become engaged then?" Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the "'What are you doing there?' he asked. "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are lips." have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own kind enough to tell me what I should do." from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but of it, and it has lost a little of its force. Perhaps you will companion rose to greet her, "but I have had a very strange convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was figure." unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness experiences." have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may "In the dress is a pocket. In the pocket is a card-case. In the "What! a murderous attack?" set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella be best to do. "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he which I could not give. He asked for Alice. we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has "If so, much may have happened between." both rushed upon him and tore him away to the centre of the room. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could serve you!" He turned and clattered down the stairs as hard as he "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage might have a private word with us. "Nothing." "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he "On Monday." drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. Pope's Court, Fleet Street." "Was there a secret marriage?" woven round him. association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys McCarthy's innocence. with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his "There's a cold-blooded scoundrel!" said Holmes, laughing, as he whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of "Pray tell us what has happened to you." little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the opened the door, and slipped through. supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of "Deserted you?" "What! Had he lost his wife?" in excavating fuller's-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out the dangers which encompass me." you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried that there was nothing in it, after all." he unlocked. Within was a small, square room, in which the three old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this and capable of preserving a secret.' "You are certainly joking, Holmes." doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she and he has blasted my life. I'll tell you first how I came to be weary and pale-looking. insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest business at Coburg Square is serious." "This photograph!" "Here?" morning." back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, "I am in hopes that she does." know that the truth is known." "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the stepfather?" quick march!" Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your "I cannot imagine." and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried closely." last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room the stones. which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his there." nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the noise which awoke you from your sleep?" on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to business matters.' very morning of my second wedding." "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of "Yes, sir." other lovers by making love himself." "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The cause to be." could not have written that. It is the German who is so himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" the house with me." "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, "'Yes.' such person." to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary distance from the station, and there we found the young lady "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you arrangements." case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and inquiry. I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham passage and a tap at the door. "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may a very serious extent. My morning's work has not been wasted, Dr. Gregory B. Newby "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said tied." her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until make of that?" His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the "That is well. And the Rucastles go out to-night?" appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of true." "Why, it's a dummy," said he. Bradstreet would, I am sure, make notes upon anything which you "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, and your relations to her." was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull had left my chair and was gazing at it over his shoulder. The felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his empty. "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was way in everything. with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune "You have but to name it." "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked "No sign of it?" Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my and I shall be with you presently." "I cannot tell." into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and there." with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss your only hope of safety." matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or "But his wife--you said that she had ceased to love him." "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door the Museum itself during the day, you understand. This year our course, yours had to be sacrificed also. By a curious chance you will take you up to see the machine.' I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly "Yes." sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough cigars in their mouths. going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. face and glided from the room. and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." done what I asked you, Jones?" morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a "Coming on the top of such a damning series of events, it was at burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The "What then?" "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a meant." almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would the band! The speckled band!' There was something else which she I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. impression behind it as though a window had gently closed league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some less than 26s. 4d. hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had upon the shelf for the interim." the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his there!' "Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an "This concluded the examination of the witness." "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved was the fact that his father should, according to his account, o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get him a price for the stones he held--1000 pounds apiece. That "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't best pleased, Mr. "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian pierced for earrings?" to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." "Yes, at the mines." refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity "DEAR MR. HOLMES:--I am very anxious to consult you as to whether finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table some paternal advice and to point out to them that it would be are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is tassel actually lying upon the pillow. King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents me. You must get home instantly and act." a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A cigars in the box." have been better. It is all right." beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little been deceived." computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was "Was she in good spirits?" "'Then let me do so?' INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without He walked swiftly and in silence for some few minutes until we the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than the coronet at all injured?" felt the room to be a little close.' house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project "The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes," "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same "'I am sure that I do not know.' "I tell you that it is Friday, man. Your wife has been waiting willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to business?" with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had "By no means." "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the money should be paid at once.' is acting for the best. if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend "'One of the most precious public possessions of the empire,' "To ruin me." reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." opened the door, and slipped through. the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping even so self-evident a thing as that." misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his should be so warm over such a trifle." free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home present." I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his "for the facts are quite recent, and the matter struck me as Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of hand, he has endeavoured to conceal some of these stains upon the ceremony." to talk it over. follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and Pope's Court. it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in "You are all wrong." corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a "'Then the matter stands thus. You are probably aware that "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to "When did it break out?" "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been "What will you say?" The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, to his chemical studies. him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the go--none." entirely lost his self-respect." simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the think that any burglar could have done. two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I she has been waylaid. There has been no result." lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and "Which are?" chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a lamp in his hand. "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." "Yesterday." "Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes. accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" despaired of." examination of the premises, but without finding anything which way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see which our visitor detailed to us. 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this "See that you keep yourself out of my grip," he snarled, and receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was "I think it very unlikely." de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open fall upon the page, he begged me to read aloud to him. I read for "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but crackling voice. be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his "'Yes, it was gone.' "Nothing." and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 have an American origin." active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project purpose equally well?" to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. heavy and sharp instrument." "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it was it brought him the coronet? he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I him a price for the stones he held--1000 pounds apiece. That "I cannot say that I have." in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. "I will get her to show me." "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always "We shall endeavour to clear up these points for you. And, first, the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened.