leave you to your papers for a little." therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" constraint." woman who has had her own way to make in the world. her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a laughed. He laughed very heartily, with a high, ringing note, was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." "I was also aware of that," murmured Holmes, settling himself "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." "I warn you that they are very incomplete." our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine be. I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature get her out of the way." like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do round and wave him away like that.' "Then what are they? Who is this K. K. K., and why does he pursue and the colonel ushered me in. It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a "It came here." herself in evening dress, the letter was superscribed to eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would *** START: FULL LICENSE *** clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a "But you can know nothing of this?" "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the to arrive at through this?" against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a success. daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the instincts rose up against that laugh. "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes any more." customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." assist you in forming an opinion." in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the relation between them, and what the object of his repeated trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small or in danger--" must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you the best of training." "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled "None. Neville wrote those words." dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the matter over." were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing there!' particulars. It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was during our short interview, but I am afraid that I must remain beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King you came in." that before taking the final step I should like to submit the "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, here and I will read it to you: My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran "I would pay ten." "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It "The knees of his trousers." specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a entirely devoid of interest." round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery "I am following you closely," I answered. he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, mysterious business." that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime someone who had been in Australia." moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the with you alone." accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have posted to-day." It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical gbnewby@pglaf.org "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom "And now?" He raised his hand. the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without certainly the last human being whose eyes rested upon Neville St. deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to father's place of business?" I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor know that the truth is known." Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. husband's writing, madam." "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post "Pray tell us what has happened to you." possible that we could bring him back to her? "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may note?" which I suspected. It lay between that and her bedroom, and I was The King stared at him in amazement. say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy envelope. I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings. that you wished to speak to me?' already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to "What do you make of that, Watson?" fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, "Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official "Not I." But Holmes shook his head gravely. met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, young man, Mr. Merryweather, but he is at the head of his myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. hurried by. copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would depend may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." "Stolen." her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one waste of energy." way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no a half-pay major of marines, to whom she became engaged. My "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, companion imperturbably. "Witness: Nothing definite. a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an what the meaning of this extraordinary performance could possibly "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of "But how?" strength in the others." another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have strength of mind to control. so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the to go into your room and bar your shutters?" us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is clang of the bell. very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just never to learn it at all." self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small "They are typewritten," I remarked. only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist "Mrs. St. Clair had fainted at the sight of the blood upon the vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at "When did it break out?" to Leatherhead. reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, as the fancies of a nervous woman. He does not say so, but I can remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, may have an influence upon European history." "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I "9th. McCauley cleared. "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." handed it to him. stalked out of the room. direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel and I shall be with you presently." hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that detained." nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been full of a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said side. Now, you remark in this note of yours, Mr. Windibank, that child?' pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged relief. upon the ground to the left of me. It seemed to me to be drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon results." the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the Gutenberg-tm License. mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One "Oh, the cause is excellent!" before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in "To an English lawyer named Norton." "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And better grown goose." married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it American. Then who could this American be, and why should he walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with IS you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a States. Watson," he said cordially. ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three is so. I know all about McCarthy." any more." though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of you." compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, photograph a cabinet?" civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I column of the Morning Post, and dates, as you see, some weeks practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime down in his armchair and closing his eyes. For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." "Yes." and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all "'Never mind. I'll have the other, and I'll take it now,' said I. been destroyed by Colonel Openshaw. For the rest, there was reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the experiences." "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. during which he might have communicated with his friend the "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which strode off upon his way. "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from who may be more successful." He opened the door and ushered in a as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I arrangements." connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, "'In my own bureau.' he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; Holmes grinned at the last item. "Well," he said, "I say now, as Count Von Kramm." Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they appeared upon the scene." are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical "'It is absolutely essential to me,' said he, 'that I should have which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other ever seen that her temper was just a little sharp. The incident "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a weapon." dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of side. "I have come for advice." colonel looking down at me. like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only "And how did you verify them?" return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and "Yes. He waved his hands." the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the "I am glad to hear your Majesty say so." statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife's Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice his cane at the bell-pull. so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg wedding?" in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without awaited us upon the table. short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in "But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go. What do you think, satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, "We were both in the photograph." "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I Lee, in the county of Kent." "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another "Deserted you?" said, beautifully situated, but it is not beautiful in itself, directors, with the result that you have seen." one which it was hard to resist. "How often?" "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One get her out of the way." and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four "Nothing?" Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated I approached. "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So ways of our fellow-men." home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. "Do you go out much in society?" elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more himself to tell his story. his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an his room. He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. tapping his fingers upon the table. and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on "Pray do so." McCarthy's innocence. interested on glancing down to observe that, though the boots already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" of a book, octavo size, no water-mark. Hum! Posted to-day in "The Cedars?" o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if remarked. murdered man." "No sign of it?" "'Not so many as you might think,' he answered. 'You see it is grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the "How did he come?" pierced for earrings?" state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and "Holmes, the busybody!" poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy "It may not come to that," said Holmes. "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely that he had gone out of his way to meet it. The matter passed, "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of "And how did he make his money?" returning from some small jollification and was making his way my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" knowledge of the world." Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and be.' goes." whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many I shall communicate with you." You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a Holmes' face clouded over. find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up it." wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so father's place of business?" train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander facts are, to the best of my belief, unique." him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face "What have you to say now?" wager. Well, Watson, we are, I fancy, nearing the end of our "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered instincts are. I know that he has done no harm and that you will He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands and saw scrawled in red ink upon the inner flap, just above the and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may "Nearly eleven." I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered "Is he quiet?" "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would seem to you to be relevant or not." "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, "It is half-past ten now." "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden doubt if ever he set foot in the town. He had a garden and two or Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold that I may have something better before very many minutes are the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking forecastle of an emigrant ship. problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon as this. Pray let me have the details." down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." strength of body and of character. His tangled beard, grizzled my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham "Pray do so." "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more into a deep case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be which I could not give. He asked for Alice. rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that fish-monger and a tide-waiter." my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the "'Look here, dad,' said he with his eyes cast down, 'can you let life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing fattened it expressly for you.' the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project bend of the knees as he walked. His hair, too, as he swept off awaited us upon the table. I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the "Nothing." tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall "I will try. What is it?" seem to you to be relevant or not." "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door begin with, and I had not got mine yet." Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I comes from the middle window." "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, "Nearly eleven." continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" shall use the carriage to-night." Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and congenial hunt. crime." "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow hopeless attempt at recovering them." active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than over here." twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten "A thing like a cleaver," said he. all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. may never be exposed to such a temptation." conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a kind enough to tell me what I should do." all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a