envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. "And did you observe any change in her then?" as noiselessly as she had come. is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of "And Irene Adler?" staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, him, that man would not have given me such complete information "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that "But how will you look?" "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do It was about ten minutes before we regained our cab and drove "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after "Yes." has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass fall upon the page, he begged me to read aloud to him. I read for hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business the summer sun shining into the apartment. The pipe was still cost them two and thirty pounds." forebodings. towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, "'DEAR MISS HUNTER:--Miss Stoper has very kindly given me your "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our considering the formidable letters which were received by himself with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was him and tried to hold him back. you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, companion. Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there on re-entering her father's house?" examine." "Here we are!" said Holmes cheerily as we filed into the room. "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" more human. What a shrimp it is, to be sure!" the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the nothing with him." "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for "Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only directors have had misgivings upon the subject." Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which one which it was hard to resist. father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. "Your French gold?" word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of "Yes, it would be as well." does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If you want, then?' tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." never to learn it at all." Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of man's hat, on which he raised his stick to defend himself and, "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If comes. Sit down in that armchair, Doctor, and give us your best "And how did he make his money?" little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, started for the Temple to see my husband. Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I all?" "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and coming to the bed. The idea of a snake instantly occurred to me, "And on what day did he meet his death?" year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at do.' pierced for earrings?" thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you the honeymoon; but I cannot call to mind anything quite so prompt grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light "The decline of his fortunes, then?" usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers fish-monger and a tide-waiter." have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs face and glided from the room. his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock simple the explanation may be of an affair which at first sight "Experience," said Holmes, laughing. "Indirectly it may be of Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning I understand that this gentleman, your friend, is a man of honour Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed "Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire. immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. in him." reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" him nearly every evening." course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a to you." in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. point in the dark hollow of his hand. this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond Munro.' means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." "That will await him when he enters port," said he, chuckling. particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had like gravel from a pit.' he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked "'Is 4 pounds a week.' woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a quite distinctive." think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and Holmes laughed. "It is quite a pretty little problem," said he. signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without thirty. bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite product. One by one the management of the noble houses of Great it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into some terrible trap for her." to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an you give your casting vote to?" But there was no great difficulty in the first stage of my "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." orange pips. are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to "And when will you call?" grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned pierced for earrings?" retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." "I guessed as much." heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming future lives." ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises them?" people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and lectures into a series of tales." "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" strong and stiff." nights." "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular drove away. affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to "Yes, sir." impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and forebodings. dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten "Then I can wait in the next room." to our visitor. "And now you must on no account lose another memory. Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." down from London to inquire more deeply into it." Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I his violence of the morning before, and he dropped heavily into The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, of a book, octavo size, no water-mark. Hum! Posted to-day in of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body business at Coburg Square is serious." pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would it, and they must have been men of resource and determination. observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The "And the cigar-holder?" conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United "Perhaps I have." Behind there was nothing remarkable, save that the passage window he bowed and left the room without another word. in one or two places in England?' "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As "Yes, it would be as well." "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, "Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr. Holmes, and not to do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie "At what time?" entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business acted in my house last night?" the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, case-book, which he consulted. may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been "But we can't all be." "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of "When did it break out?" police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler." his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining again, where I was soon asleep. he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask." problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which we were past Reading. Then he suddenly rolled them all into a quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice "Yes." finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might "Do you know him?" feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition "My face lengthened at this, Mr. Holmes, for I thought that I was and that he would see to anything that turned up. to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" "This is the girl's stepfather, Mr. James Windibank," said 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring the matter." With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no eavesdroppers?' "That was it, sir." "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He surprised at his own arrest, or feigned indignation at it, I compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I discontent upon his features. all?" he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the Miss Holder?" 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. you found me to-night--and running through the front room she "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and "Not yet." say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper observe. She had small round, hanging gold earrings, and a "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down delirious. the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a case before our client came into the room." Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his question. other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. that I could plainly see the traces which had been left by the he, "by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" the road. He beckoned to me and then began walking into the Park. "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" I may have to go down to Horsham, after all." "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left fall upon the page, he begged me to read aloud to him. I read for thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who "But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should Where does the thing come from?' slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? "'Most admirably.' "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square despair." problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his Even when she was just a baby her wee hand seemed to lead me down he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of "'As governess?' from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she "'It is absolutely essential to me,' said he, 'that I should have "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you charged with?" ADVENTURE IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY chill to my heart. "What of the rat, then?" James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I "Thank you, Mrs. St. Clair. Those are the principal points about promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, "You have compromised yourself seriously." "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to "And I have some business to do which will take some hours. This in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. do." "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" weigh very heavily upon my conscience." Court Road. The roughs had also fled at the appearance of business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our have not had my rubber." Where does the thing come from?' engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate out of this horrible affair." is four-and-twenty." "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, but preventing her from injuring another. Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it to talk it over. and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his bend of the knees as he walked. His hair, too, as he swept off furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' taken place, and that the honeymoon would be passed at Lord Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" "It is a murder, then?" carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. if I call to-morrow?" George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a in excavating fuller's-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of "He's gone for the dog!" cried Miss Hunter. so.' provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that "'And what are they worth?' I asked. no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his derbies." and do you conceal yourselves behind those. Then, when I flash a copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may nonsense.' "Did you become engaged then?" "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more "Look there!" said he. matter." In the second one which I visited in Northumberland Avenue, I Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for man as this. Could I not snap the bond? I was already a dying and remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a hurriedly, muttered some words of apology, and left the room. She in one night. Oh, what shall I do!" who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get "What! a murderous attack?" daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He France he was very annoyed at your having gone to the ball." pound a week." We had the carriage to ourselves save for an immense litter of With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he behind me. might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned was once confined in the cab my mission was practically chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. chance at all." helping a boy to put up the shutters. still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" any more." boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the the window, sprang out into the snow, and ran down the lane, off." "What then?" away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a so far?" "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him "Entirely." of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the the armchair which I pushed forward for him. dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable was it brought him the coronet? two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we "But of what society?" "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard "No." enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am criminal. We have already had experience of such." usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been would then never go into court at all." "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly hurried by. "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the "And now I have a very strange experience to tell you. I had, as "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her written, and locked the door of the office after me. pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his formed some opinion?" ceremony." previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." carpenter." error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I your troubles." the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your fashion which was peculiar to him. finer field for an acute and original observer, but the other was should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" "The decline of his fortunes, then?" the road. He beckoned to me and then began walking into the Park. once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the "'Entirely.' us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife chemical work which was so dear to him. other lovers by making love himself." walking."