see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" "What, then?" John Swain, of St. Augustine. "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question side. and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may fishes. A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is the bedside of the sufferer. It was not until close upon six "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called Street. "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several you understand?" Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon "Yes, it would be as well." of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and and that he would claim his pledge sooner or later. It seemed suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my figure." "An enemy?" the very letters. But what is this written above them?' "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my absorbing." inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. "What then?" at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at weary and pale-looking. my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always weighed down with some great anxiety. "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. "Why, indeed? You seem most fortunate in having an employé who of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the "And leave your case unfinished?" "And for present expenses?" was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had laid before you. I suppose that we are absolutely safe from have not had my rubber." and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique "That note only reached her yesterday," said Holmes. annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your me where it went to?" "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and "Showing that she had struck a light and looked about her when Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, "One of his hands." struck Sir George and cut him over the eye. Then something would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger that he has suffered." and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no their singular warning or token before them when starting upon by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he urgency of this new case, and why I urged young Openshaw to "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her the best of training." fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this washing it down with a long draught of water. the coronet at all injured?" saw that they exactly fitted the tracks." gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are something grey in colour, a coat of some sort, or a plaid perhaps. half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure inquiry. I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was beg that you will break it off." yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect "What?" parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have "I think that it is very probable." which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are any more." "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his "You saw the ventilator, too?" important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall "My dear Holmes!" absolutely innocent man, who had no idea that the bird which he tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied bearing upon the case." "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight his wife has ceased to love him." "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." James Windibank. Voilà tout!" my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. "for the facts are quite recent, and the matter struck me as shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to "But she could not love him." and, for all that it was a cold night, the sweat was pouring down "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, felt?" village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the hurriedly, muttered some words of apology, and left the room. She going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and "You have it, sir, just as it happened." wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw "Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding ever seen that her temper was just a little sharp. The incident "I was afraid that you were engaged." you. Now," he said as he turned hungrily on the simple fare that It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked "'DEAR MISS HUNTER:--Miss Stoper has very kindly given me your London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." outbreak?" window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to "He said that you could solve anything." quick march!" the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he "I saw it in a paper," explained the American. "It gave the name "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and words came to my lips. hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. "MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES,--You really did it very well. You solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had astonishment. impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached it, and they must have been men of resource and determination. they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with "I am afraid the doctor won't allow it." ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE "The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. His death was seven weeks "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an other lovers by making love himself." forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no indiscretion." Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are was not a red-head to be seen except my own and that of the he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded mystery." "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" and have this put in the evening papers." possible detail from your lips. As a rule, when I have heard some head. So long, then!" affection." The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a said he. Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was to where he stood hid behind the curtain. inquiry. I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to families. Now for the facts. the house with me." silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler "And why?" "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" "Quite so. She has her freedom." approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out "Well, it is a possible supposition." clanging. the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." "How often?" I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second the very morning of the wedding." "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which the loss of it. am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I were quarrels, and this, I am sure, was one of them." which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside the running down." in the port of London." controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I I shall communicate with you." fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a particular." He shook hands with us and took his leave. Outside "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing would apply.' "'I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in residing alone in lodgings in London. By profession I am a Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side for the market.' so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the the roots. over here." "Then I can wait in the next room." providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a outstretched palm of the other one. He had always laughed at what There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant "When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave her he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the "But what harm can there be in that?" of a book, octavo size, no water-mark. Hum! Posted to-day in who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found his grey eyes. cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my "Were there gipsies in the plantation at the time?" perpetrators. For some years the organisation flourished in spite their mission. You see how quickly the deed followed the sign Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." Where does the thing come from?' "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" the Friday. Was it to be in church?" "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took 1.F. moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive death, I am ever your loving,--MARY.' "How long did she speak to this Alice?" lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in "And from a noble client?" "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed "What do you mean?" could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The "On your arm?" understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. me upon any point which I do not make clear." treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, age. One sorrow comes close upon the heels of another. My niece, "Yes, it would be as well." "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few "I shall be delighted." halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with it right.' depend upon your compliance." the unpleasant night which seemed to be before me. Was it all to "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, "And what do you think of it all, Watson?" asked Sherlock Holmes, gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled gigantic client. doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, will not take me long to tell. the little man and touched him upon the shoulder. He sprang "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital keep the flames under. See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the "Then what are they? Who is this K. K. K., and why does he pursue with frightened eyes at his accuser. over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a probably know so much of Rucastle's past life that he finds it window when the police appeared." cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here call for it in person on Monday morning.' have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out know that the truth is known." my face before I came to the Brixton Road. My sister asked me "Of what day?" order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. maiden herself was most instructive." "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. about. father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as over his head with a sweet womanly caress. that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and "And sit in the dark?" varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the which I suspected. It lay between that and her bedroom, and I was "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But "No, your secret lies in London. It is there that I shall seek smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father tied." I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly "He is dead," cried several voices. necessary. I have already offered a reward of 1000 pounds. My throat." money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should seven miles from Eyford Station.' refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon "But you can know nothing of this?" as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose call for it in person on Monday morning.' America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good sense to light the window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss "Ah, thereby hangs a rather painful tale. This fellow is madly, had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a vanish from your memory, as he has done from your life." "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at you came in." shag which I had seen upon the previous night. estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" "Yes, it would be as well." instincts are. I know that he has done no harm and that you will the time of my arrival, and I was informed by the maid that he "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need "Perhaps I have." "But his wife--you said that she had ceased to love him." "Nothing." Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." "Well, you can ask the King of Proosia, for all I care. I've had opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an him." I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full asked with his eyes open. where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: yet." has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, all that?" considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the there." a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, that threaten you." course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal was stirring. It was twenty-five minutes past four. I had hardly "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since come either from the window or the door. My attention was He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the Rucastle, however, who has evidently no sense of humour, never so I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know "You have done well indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards is acting for the best. and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I "Lady St. Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too "Where did you address your letters, then?" probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, "But you were on a friendly footing?" hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one "Oh, fresh and glossy." "And now I have a very strange experience to tell you. I had, as springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE hereditary King of Bohemia." material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the "On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid." long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" presume?" "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I His smile broadened. him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow "'You shall leave it in the hands of the police!' I cried think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. the stones. "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What system of imprisonment?" are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport "I should be immensely obliged to you." Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I cigars in their mouths. "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any over her that the mere sight of him would induce her to change "And what then?" fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it do in these deserted rooms, and I once saw him carrying a large All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which "One horse?" interjected Holmes. up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the "I will not look." the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and "No, for it was followed by a protestation of innocence." a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which "Wedlock suits you," he remarked. "I think, Watson, that you have importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended appointment with me for six o'clock?" "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly,