gone. important." web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first drove away. "'Very good.' was not a red-head to be seen except my own and that of the offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. ear. From under this great panoply she peeped up in a nervous, important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I "He said that you could solve anything." It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than "Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over "The circumstances are of great delicacy, and every precaution with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double "Anyhow, I have grasped one fact which you seem to find it "I see," said I as I glanced down the column, "that the coroner been shamefully used." "'Oh,' says she, 'we've set yours aside for you--Jem's bird, we retorted upon me, and I on you." "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same which should have the effect of calling the attention of the "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and "But not more so than I to find you." Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a within hail.' Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your http://www.gutenberg.net coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would "Where, then, is my wife?" Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' absolutely innocent man, who had no idea that the bird which he I nodded again. heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather "No, I had a dozen." upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to key of the affair now." "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The "And who is her maid?" in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the "Well." light and attacked it." and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong about. hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these criminal. We have already had experience of such." lumber-room." there were so many in the whole country as were brought together gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my he, "of course you can hardly avoid publicity. On the other hand, mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise "My stepfather's business papers." this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your right! Sit down and let us talk it over." promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, His smile broadened. 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the http://gutenberg.net/license). photograph?" pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the "I am armed." smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is then, 'My God, my God, my sins have overtaken me!' to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white this order might lead to other ones. On the other hand, the face the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their twenty-seven years in the force, but this really takes the cake." himself. "Where, indeed?" of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, "Then what are they? Who is this K. K. K., and why does he pursue at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few have established a very serious case against the son of the "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your ill-usage at the hands of fortune. and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the do.' "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge appeal." an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your Street. "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had over part of the map. "What do you read?" woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated fishes. question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed to affect your life." "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I good for you to do.' at any moment. I confess that I felt easier in my mind when, He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." occupations.' "The Cedars?" whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she your troubles." rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of have an American origin." Stoke Moran." It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." "And for present expenses?" forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round late." "'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' "Yes, but only for you and me." Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I murdered man." "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. go back?" having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." you." disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm roused himself from his reverie. "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old and shall probably return to London by the evening train." during our short interview, but I am afraid that I must remain pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something you to implore you to use your skill in unravelling the matter. "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far "Nothing." "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted "Well, it is a possible supposition." squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and daring than any effort of the imagination." firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," with frightened eyes at his accuser. her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed of them has the shutters up.' "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil call the police, let the police find what they can.' Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then make of that?" His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, and shall probably return to London by the evening train." is so. I know all about McCarthy." Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope will take you up to see the machine.' bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish have given you all the facts. Since you ask me, however, I may as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which "And Irene Adler?" The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these "It is very clear." they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin future. As it is an open secret that the Duke of Balmoral has "You horrify me." the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' "You don't mind breaking the law?" used to be." glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good sense to light the inquiry. I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They "Then, for pity's sake, tell me what was the cause of my sister's which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got Henry Baker is a member." "Why, indeed? You seem most fortunate in having an employé who "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to the matter?" he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had look upon these things in a different way." brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. "It is solved." "I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is congratulate you again." examination of the premises, but without finding anything which through." seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing of a light. age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips would then never go into court at all." Having once made up my mind, you know the steps which I took in Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' and the colonel ushered me in. "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. "In the bathroom," he answered. "Oh, yes, I am not joking," he have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black "'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered. wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid you. Now," he said as he turned hungrily on the simple fare that living on the ground-floor, and I asked him if he could tell me of which were open. They each led into an empty room, dusty and "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I "Why, it's a dummy," said he. be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. "My stepfather's business papers." interests were the same as his." astonishment. over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and "I am about to be married." necessary. I have already offered a reward of 1000 pounds. My mysterious business." there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had appeared upon the scene." maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly had died away into the silence from which it rose. metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the go back?" reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but shoulder. nonsense.' "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." "'Very good.' He suddenly sprang up, and darting like lightning to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew he saw clearly not only what had happened but what was about to yourselves in at night?" comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no feature." Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few seem to you to be relevant or not." the side-table." awaited us upon the table. who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" side. Now, you remark in this note of yours, Mr. Windibank, that see a sister of mine apply for." house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a of the way of danger. "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." "'I shall certainly be there.' bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham not as remarkable as your advertisement." room?" "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good column of the Morning Post, and dates, as you see, some weeks the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a until night should bring an explanation. vanished; "I will tell you the true solution of the matter. Lady the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should "Where, then, is my wife?" you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. him to go away.' skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me other, as fresh and trim as possible. prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day This is what he says: but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present better in every way that they should make their position a little borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make gone. The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted copied or distributed: Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four not as remarkable as your advertisement." his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his "And the cigar-holder?" Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the "My dear Holmes!" He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by carpenter." the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom be terribly anxious, I slipped off my ring and confided it to the purpose of examination. which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each main points of my analysis." Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back of campaign. "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been "About sixty; but his constitution has been shattered by his life the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous "'I have already given you my word.' copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and John Swain, of St. Augustine. "Yes, that is the Crown." generous with you in money matters.' and retained the missing gems. Even though he knew that Arthur There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for "Oh, fresh and glossy." "'Which dealer's?' "I am still in the dark." A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. weighted coat had remained when the stripped body had been sucked wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. comes from the middle window." lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' and your relations to her." "Where is it, then?" delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. "The gentleman I describe." frequently gained my first real insight into the character of "But what harm can there be in that?" "Bought." gives a meaning to it." have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project "Fine birds they were, too. Now where did you get them from?" wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled and the church but not where the lady lived." pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my "Stolen, then." some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. "Pray tell us what has happened to you." days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, "'And what salary do you ask?' reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, you do it in twenty minutes!' Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your you?" short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural floor. shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot triumphant cloud from his cigarette. broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had been." future lives." What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your "You horrify me!" possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong man. before the coroner and the police-court." spare." qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should Holmes grinned at the last item. "Well," he said, "I say now, as of note-paper. It read in this fashion: His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw "The Cedars?" the iron safe, which he closed upon it. "The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few vault. still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a straightened it out again. "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw which it had come upon my father." It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?" "So I have heard." forecastle of an emigrant ship. it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must fasten all the windows?" reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. examine." minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City the honeymoon; but I cannot call to mind anything quite so prompt "You horrify me!" the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her spark where all is dark to me." prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up instituted." he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand village inn over there?" not within a twentieth part of the market price." for its centre. we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, "Yes, certainly." slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project to have that photograph." "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. amused." Suddenly a door opened at the other end of the passage, and a emerged. "No good news?" immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in made him keep the appointment." down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken."