and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that "No, distinctly professional." and the colonel ushered me in. DISSOLVED. "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing other lovers by making love himself." "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of strange features which were associated with the two crimes which not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one one which it was hard to resist. "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your the bedside of the sufferer. It was not until close upon six withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ease, particulars. It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those "Farewell, then," said the old man solemnly. "Your own deathbeds, I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward "I am in hopes that she does." with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, you." on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. the house with me." utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small from you?" have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to dinner, I told Arthur and Mary my experience, and of the precious simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." signal between you and your father? cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by Watson. He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with a very grave face. had left my chair and was gazing at it over his shoulder. The "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of do.' business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very "That's no good." had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." directors, with the result that you have seen." see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of "I am about to be married." my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she other means.' "It goes to the housekeeper's room." the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which were thick with the ice crystals. "I suppose," I remarked, "that, machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never "Who was the criminal, then?" "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual breakfast and whispered something to her husband. there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but "That will do, Mr. Wilson. I shall be happy to give you an quickly through a disagreeable task. The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have congenial hunt. Scotland Yard. With him we drove to the Hereford Arms where a misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure prepare for the new role I have to play." in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after weary and pale-looking. beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." "'I am sure that I do not know.' "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." "I think it very unlikely." wedding?" suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." fattened it expressly for you.' of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an "You have carte blanche." upon an income of about 60 pounds." off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem wife's character?" London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was mystery!" congratulate you again." opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in "It missed him, then?" our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was more human. What a shrimp it is, to be sure!" One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly "Then let us do so. Watson, I fear that you will find it very in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his struck Sir George and cut him over the eye. Then something "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, "What will you do, then?" this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. I should send him away to his death--!" He sprang from his chair no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in "I have seen the police." the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future hair?' "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, instituted." Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting "The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. His death was seven weeks the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, is four-and-twenty." is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have "And that is--" ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. question you as to those details which seem to me to be most impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his too. "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in "And now I have a very strange experience to tell you. I had, as who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of "A call for help, you thought?" informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our "You horrify me!" It was about ten minutes before we regained our cab and drove after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will "Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of outside. there was no need for father to know." made his money." "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. "Then, how do you know?" knowledge of the world." livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have voice. Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing locked." "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to "To an English lawyer named Norton." have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so "'And the work?' has little to do with my story." them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." "The best possible." shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your success. Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they "Yes; and he seemed to think, with me, that something had Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the we went to search for him, face downward in a little surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I young Openshaw's." How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me "'Not so many as you might think,' he answered. 'You see it is "Well, it is a possible supposition." "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was do." whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning is so. I know all about McCarthy." there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John shall not find me ungrateful." the road. He beckoned to me and then began walking into the Park. Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague "Did he not advertise?" "But his left-handedness." "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by you to implore you to use your skill in unravelling the matter. very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the of." purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have surprise or anger would not be natural under the circumstances, "'What, the red-headed man?' together. Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in bedroom door." bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them "I never have." week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm "None." there." hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a "'Never mind. I'll have the other, and I'll take it now,' said I. springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he possible that we could bring him back to her? "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I recall any case within my experience which looked at the first Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, hurried away. man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and "They must be cunning devils," he exclaimed at last. "How could reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his you." collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a strode off upon his way. "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty "But how did you gain them?" while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The "That's no good." "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor. "I think that it is very probable." "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me "No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom." his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from which surrounds me? At present it is out of my power to reward "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I careless servant girl?" "'A dozen yards or so.' "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was "I am all attention, madam." his wife has ceased to love him." card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer "Very. But will he see it?" "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him. black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase confirm the strange rumours which have been so persistently has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the it? Did I buy the geese off you?" Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' signal I tossed my rocket into the room with a cry of "Fire!" The man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of clang of the bell. society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity directors, with the result that you have seen." Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and perpetrators. For some years the organisation flourished in spite arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and "None." it, and they must have been men of resource and determination. magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next and prosperity to your house. Good-night." our word." met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look Carefully as I examined every fact connected with his death, I with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly what is your own theory as to what took place?" had foresight, but has less now than formerly, pointing to a delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was bell. Holmes whistled. is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and "What is he like, this Vincent Spaulding?" however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' said he. husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past simple cases which are so extremely difficult." so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and his cane at the bell-pull. "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the finer field for an acute and original observer, but the other was there when the Rucastles went away." breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" and a marriage was arranged, and pa was very pleased, but I felt John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, pressing in one house as in another. in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this was a lad." his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may out." You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. make me his representative both with the servants and with the gone. and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was which it had come upon my father." postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the day "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and salesman. "He is still with you, I presume?" "And what did you learn from him?" great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after "My private note-paper." "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which dear old homesteads?" "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." gentleman's clothes. practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. morning." Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should of Oxfordshire, and within seven miles of Reading. There is a "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." if she died from some sudden fright." "Yes." thin, with a long, sharp nose?" "Where, indeed?" copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as problems help me to do so." Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting As he spoke there was the sharp sound of horses' hoofs and Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San will not take me long to tell. "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever entirely lost his self-respect." through." "It is very kind of you." "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means miles off. analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention clang of the bell. part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for fuss that is made over them." "How did you deduce the select?" shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You woman." surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of was used.' and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise "Yes, sir." little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which was not a red-head to be seen except my own and that of the gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard the loss of it. have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical writing, and yet I know it well." "Yes, sir; for he had started to England just before it arrived." said I. "My dear Holmes!" in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the "Bought." carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the that you saw all that I did." the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its anything to a woman, for she would have her way." hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to more terrible than the truth. "The band! the speckled band!" whispered Holmes. very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon "To an end?" his cane at the bell-pull. were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more "You have done well indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now here and I will read it to you: quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them "And Miss Sutherland?" "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor "In the dress is a pocket. In the pocket is a card-case. In the "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then detained." stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly allusion to a rat. in my life." to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, back at me." The words fell quite distinctly upon my ear. I they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second floor. something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his "Upon what point?" you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you bearing upon the case." he died? it is hardly safe and should be stopped.' Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to events than those which have happened in my own family." "It is to him that this trophy belongs." came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I business at Coburg Square is serious." "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" cigar and let me expound." the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary hair?' dressed, and his age, I should judge, would be nearer forty than seen what he had seen, and yet from his words it was evident that annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in make me his representative both with the servants and with the on re-entering her father's house?" be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand