and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered "Yes, miss. Mr. Rucastle let me out when he came back before he "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. "'What, the red-headed man?' As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless round with crates and massive boxes. description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and and several scattered drops were visible upon the wooden floor of "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" never will be, entirely cleared up. in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the day very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his later, upon the night of May 2nd." to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a "In San Francisco, a year ago." at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for "But not more so than I to find you." "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were I have a vague impression that as I ran forward something lay very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, ready to-morrow?' "'There is a drive, then?' "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If imbecility!" he cried. "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point "No bad?" hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is lamp in his hand. 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from highly," said Holmes. people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes of the efforts of the United States government and of the better Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the laughter, whenever he saw you, and afterwards from your gesture, across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of "Of Friday, June 19th." the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." and a shock of very red hair. on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to "Yes, her father brought her over for this last London season. I Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small "No, I must go. My heart is lightened already since I have Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my "Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the "Witness: Nothing definite. upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no His name is Francis Prosper." be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If and I shall be with you presently." "In your heart of hearts, do you think that Neville is alive?" "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a girl said." along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was but unfortunately I had no capital by which I could do this. I "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he over his head with a sweet womanly caress. agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of "But it has twice been burgled." "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry keenly at Holmes with his bright little eyes. an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' own family. threw himself down with his face to the pillow. case before our client came into the room." has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a "Yes." massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was weary and pale-looking. "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms of the one which your family is now devouring." partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City The events in question occurred in the early days of my be terribly anxious, I slipped off my ring and confided it to the "Wedlock suits you," he remarked. "I think, Watson, that you have and capable of preserving a secret.' "On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid." "Not particularly." The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open "That also I could fathom." from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the approach us with offers to donate. murdered man." employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt arms and began to sob in a high treble key. "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened "And why?" Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire opportunities to fix the problem. editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a Mary, has deserted me." Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away I should send him away to his death--!" He sprang from his chair "It surprised me." until night should bring an explanation. this remarkable episode. "Your French gold?" I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next sofa. This way, please!" to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave "You saw the ventilator, too?" we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about train from Paddington which would bring you there at about she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death's door. Then "I would give my fortune to have them back." father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her breakfast?" explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project floor. ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the "The knees of his trousers." in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon, "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the entirely lost his self-respect." and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were result of a disguise--the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you occupation, but was interested in several companies and went into own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the "'Yes, sir.' collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic constraint." stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door once more to my work. Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, "Oh, the cause is excellent!" without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all coat-tails." fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, me where it went to?" dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential to have been novel and of interest." glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good sense to light the immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She "What will you do, then?" hard-headed British jury." Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as your only hope of safety." "I am following you closely," I answered. your equipment. "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. gigantic client. seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the "That will await him when he enters port," said he, chuckling. had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There him from endeavouring to communicate with her. So much is fairly understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the a little more before I quite committed myself. shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to confirm the strange rumours which have been so persistently "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is "'Never,' said I. LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE must compliment you." the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." that threshold again'--here in an instant the smile hardened into chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. away into the river." nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon prisoner's face. Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email away in different directions, and I went off to make my own my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the the ceiling. as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his "'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with he saw clearly not only what had happened but what was about to she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on chamber." "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, behind me. "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my "And that is--" Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said union?" "How often?" "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely that, and I came down." return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry business matters.' of fine shops and stately business premises that they really scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in have I gained?" We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was was used.' "Bought." "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning and do you conceal yourselves behind those. Then, when I flash a was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There signal between you and your father? yards of it?' Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite photograph?" again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. works. "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who "I never have." "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. "How on earth--" about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through "What will you say?" "I should be ungrateful if I were not, seeing what I gained should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the "Well, it is a possible supposition." all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend "What office?" forecastle of an emigrant ship. pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to the running down." my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. than to us. that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence of this gang." been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, be best to do. between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to and inquire as to the address." we went to search for him, face downward in a little address. "What office?" would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed look out of my bedroom window about two o'clock in the morning. which are rolled in Rotterdam." it? Did I buy the geese off you?" gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but Where does the thing come from?' some city in a dream. Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very strength." words came to my lips. "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When thought, why should she come at all? I was Isa Whitney's medical my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at "'You doubt its value?' he asked. license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when things are very often connected not with the larger but with the wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses any." "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. the tragedy. "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a "Perhaps we may make them less so." We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. room had already been engaged for us. half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked roused himself from his reverie. all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are you." matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my yet." screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box quite distinctive." characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since will not take me long to tell. off." "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by occupation, but was interested in several companies and went into "Certainly." "Will you go?" about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, probably know so much of Rucastle's past life that he finds it not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of which had been intrusted to me. On the one hand, of course, I was delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, Suddenly a door opened at the other end of the passage, and a "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met to where he stood hid behind the curtain. left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing nothing with him." recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to tassel actually lying upon the pillow. corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, very peculiar words of the dying woman?" self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern "And it is--" the King without delay." boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency I understand that this gentleman, your friend, is a man of honour "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death's door. Then and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the you give your casting vote to?" Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and light and attacked it." certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite know that the truth is known." "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!" between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was carried out of court." however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, he, "by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in "'As governess?' is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the "Then, as to money?" "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. "The gentleman I describe." "And the murderer?" shoulder. whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance paper in the air. revellers. A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will we were past Reading. Then he suddenly rolled them all into a Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he awkward doing business with an alias." little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten in the dead of the night?' explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' Mrs. Toller serenely. and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in better grown goose." until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector "May I see it?" "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? Street. the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my "And you can do nothing until then?" that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that "Very truly yours, Again Holmes raved in the air. combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my presented which may be striking and bizarre without being will take you up to see the machine.' of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen bachelor.' the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as extraordinary contortions. against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do of them has the shutters up.' the coronet in his hand?"