yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for "There are none." dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. was a lad." be sorry for having acted so harshly." Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere criminal. We have already had experience of such." Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. "I was mad--insane." the coronet in his hand?" blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at fattened it expressly for you.' precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying "On Monday." Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if floor. your co-operation." he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since are windows in it, of course?" anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped point our research must commence, and we will begin it by the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest you." with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for triumphant cloud from his cigarette. "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." "On Monday." bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about "Well, there are some on the stall with the gas-flare." envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." "'Ten to two.' "Your French gold?" day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would of note-paper. It read in this fashion: I nodded to show that I had heard. that, and I came down." a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it been shamefully used." it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes "I was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." shall use the carriage to-night." having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my "Then, come. I am all impatience to be gone." too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and grinning at my surprise, was none other than Sherlock Holmes. He appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to get her out of the way." "'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is "I am still in the dark." Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. bird I ate is country bred." you, my dear young lady?' the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with "I am all attention, madam." luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in followed. "The decline of his fortunes, then?" Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, conduct the inquiry." charged with?" when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in written, and locked the door of the office after me. ago." drunkard. I ran to her and threw my arms round her, but at that correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. tossing aside the paper. "The question for us now to solve is the provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will begin with, and I had not got mine yet." "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin "'What is it, uncle?' I cried. come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER be terribly anxious, I slipped off my ring and confided it to the XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET "Only as much as we can deduce." The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. appeal." "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind "Whose house is it?" southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had and your relations to her." feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting "Stolen." material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her Countess of Morcar's?" believe that I should never have any practice at all. which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a "I am to be neutral?" gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than "Showing that she had struck a light and looked about her when your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but greasy-backed one, laying them out together beneath the hanging lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a eat it." the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under girl said." "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is nonsense.' thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the that I may have something better before very many minutes are uncarpeted, which turned at a right angle at the farther end. "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." the little opening for the ventilator is." sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder acted in my house last night?" really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United only touch the interest." "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a beg that you will break it off." in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and your co-operation." which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of "I reached this one," said my friend, "by sitting upon five "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is the nursery. electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his soul! here is her carriage at the door." Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that "I have a cab outside." transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem own family. fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. "She told me to ask you." one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. I nodded to show that I had heard. "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some "What do you think that this unfortunate lady died of, then?" "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and this order might lead to other ones. On the other hand, the face little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. "Your French gold?" careless servant girl?" adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been flung open the window, and looked out. How quiet and sweet and thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. someone who had been in Australia." "I tell you that it is Friday, man. Your wife has been waiting earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a straightened it out again. the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could "'What are you doing there?' he asked. it." have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. breakfast." Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. "It was an hour's good drive." named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey said he. "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he "What then?" lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. conceal it?" "But his left-handedness." here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included weighed down with some great anxiety. should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow and put his glass in his pocket. "And it is--" "He said too much." future. As it is an open secret that the Duke of Balmoral has passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and this remarkable episode. moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his interested on glancing down to observe that, though the boots granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read Gutenberg-tm License. a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the to talk it over. "'A dozen yards or so.' "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will everything of importance, but you have hit upon the method, and didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled confronted him. Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened "Two days later this same performance was gone through under de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: friend's singular character. room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." your troubles." together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to night.' said he. "Her father is very rich?" seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, of this gang." ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. "Yes, sir." been." round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given Scotland Yard. With him we drove to the Hereford Arms where a II. just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first tail." and laid it on the table. felt?" rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving she might be summoned. "ARAT," I read. I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. "This photograph!" bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not of which were open. They each led into an empty room, dusty and the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was certainly not very gracious." thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you chambers. "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, "Will you go?" sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and of campaign. "And how in the world did you find them?" gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further "Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road--249," read Holmes. abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced "No?" through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the the band! The speckled band!' There was something else which she For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so notes," he said. "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of completely overtopped every other consideration that we both one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the your equipment. somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal "Well, there are some on the stall with the gas-flare." whereabouts. The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' stalked out of the room. "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we coronet," cried Mr. Holder. "Oh, my God! what a blind fool I have lamp. fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a fuss that is made over them." "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the one of them." disturbance in my wife." neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of "Very much so." open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to "By train from Waterloo." lumber-room." puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down ear. From under this great panoply she peeped up in a nervous, vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" hands. time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to town this morning, though he little knew for what purpose." also thoroughly examined, with the same result. The chimney is "What is it?" "And Irene Adler?" received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a "But you were on a friendly footing?" "The decline of his fortunes, then?" "'MY DEAREST UNCLE:--I feel that I have brought trouble upon you, from home to visit an old friend of his, Major Freebody, who is "There was a double line of tracks of a booted man, and a second from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being you for a few hours?" typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his Countess of Morcar's?" gone. "I guessed as much." "This discovery, and the evident confusion which the cripple however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. even of instruction." "'You doubt its value?' he asked. said he. hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then known to be in weak health, it seemed a fine stroke to him that suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of "You will not go there first?" and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means "The murder was done with it." of Mr. Rucastle's." year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be some small My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in arrested. You then--" putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in article, for example, as to the disappearance of the bride." gives a meaning to it." what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth be terribly anxious, I slipped off my ring and confided it to the in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in have not had my rubber." armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and waiting for the coming of its occupant. The house was just such "Please be at the Black Swan Hotel at Winchester at midday "'Look here, dad,' said he with his eyes cast down, 'can you let "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a "They have but one retreat," whispered Holmes. "That is back slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of have an American origin." Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after to flash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after "And what did you see?" "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the know that the truth is known." half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to into the bag, and made for the door. obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in "My stepfather's business papers." sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." American. Then who could this American be, and why should he came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He occurred." Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the started for the Temple to see my husband. there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what sound at heart." because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore the date of his supposed suicide." did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of matter." enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, "Very much so." dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, he, "of course you can hardly avoid publicity. On the other hand, probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps some paternal advice and to point out to them that it would be takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the pound a week." distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with that the play will be more exciting. For you, Mr. Merryweather, the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work me." out of this horrible affair." than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. green of the new foliage. week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the morning." severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a fattened it expressly for you.' in excavating fuller's-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain into the clutches of a barmaid in Bristol and marry her at a "'On the contrary,' said I, 'I opened the door myself because I empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when cigars in the box." "Very much so." deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect "That sounds a little paradoxical." "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" country, and eventually married, without anyone having a "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' in one or two places in England?' kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, back alive. Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a something grey in colour, a coat of some sort, or a plaid perhaps. window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE sound at heart." "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the