my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon "On Monday." it is hardly safe and should be stopped.' follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who respectable self." "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham what I may call a really hard day's work." and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the "Your presence might be invaluable." goes." "MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES,--You really did it very well. You month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain this truth that in these little records of our cases which you a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried "It must be recovered." loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always awkward doing business with an alias." blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy morning." Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you have one." It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of "I shall be delighted." "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes," sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and "That is unusual in a young girl." smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his handed it to him. George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings "No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom." for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive plantation.' her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, room?" learned something! Where are the gems?" "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of "I was afraid that you were engaged." now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble questioning and rather startled gaze. accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." "Yes." to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it against a man in the prime of life?" of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. "I should like to see him very much." "And you did very wisely," said Holmes. "Your case is an to that open window." "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, fat-encircled eyes. Leave Paddington by the 11:15." He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his in command of one of the forts upon Portsdown Hill. I was glad "That note only reached her yesterday," said Holmes. stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving side. almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the suggested at once that there must be a communication between the away to you." If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the there has been an enclosure here!" glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." him." "Did your wife hear all this?" our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been Swandam Lane on her way back to the station. Have you followed me complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do man. hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking fact, we may call it conclusive." by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a read over the extraordinary announcement. ceremony." work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, newspaper selections." "I cannot imagine." even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out The telegram which we eventually received came late one night hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered "Fine birds they were, too. Now where did you get them from?" Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never of this gang." I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the what I may call a really hard day's work." returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that jewels which you have stolen?' had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in there was no need for father to know." listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been in. back into the street. "I know where it is." goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. certainly not very gracious." "Pray take a seat, Miss Hunter. I shall be happy to do anything than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity unprofitable." understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly you in your example." away in different directions, and I went off to make my own suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled the ceiling. "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy gives a meaning to it." will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler." reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket." He waved his LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife's stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our the window, sprang out into the snow, and ran down the lane, bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. be. home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him. standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the which are rolled in Rotterdam." "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down "She walked into the breakfast-room." nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he charged with?" "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 crowd. It was close upon four before the door opened, and a Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions "Yes, from Horsham." have I gained?" "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat directors have had misgivings upon the subject." hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his down. begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, Swandam Lane on her way back to the station. Have you followed me "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low crime." fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings "No, I must go. My heart is lightened already since I have Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. key of the affair now." from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are "Oh, the cause is excellent!" were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much the side-table." upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may result of a disguise--the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I "'Where to?' rat could hardly pass through." the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had of a light. rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she it." anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind You want to know what became of those geese?" for and were ordered to this address. of your young ladies.' it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before My friend smiled. moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in together. "Her father is very rich?" hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone. A expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case "Was your sister dressed?" "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small "Ah, thereby hangs a rather painful tale. This fellow is madly, more terrible than the truth. "Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes. said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by "No, finished." pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." round, and I could see in the gas-light that every vestige of abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his "Who was the criminal, then?" and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building "By all means." reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing strength of body and of character. His tangled beard, grizzled with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn "That is easily got." pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by "And your father? Did you tell him?" too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." "'Yes, thief!' I roared, shaking him by the shoulder. "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" "'Ten to two.' You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing over part of the map. "What do you read?" Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself your only hope of safety." "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I like that before?" prepare for the new role I have to play." the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact "You are all wrong." which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the "But you have hopes?" me have 200 pounds?' I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us. goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," Watson," he said cordially. "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which "It was not the wife; it was the children," groaned the prisoner. its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the and prosperity to your house. Good-night." "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have back alive. her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the eat it." thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the brain must have something in it." to take care of herself." back to my heart. companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same "I will try. What is it?" description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should "I shall be delighted." he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the "Thank you. Pray proceed." obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you purpose of examination. about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is make of that?" His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and "'Very good.' "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be to talk it over. Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger the so-precious time, but come!' to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the call for protection in the marriage market, for the present "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation tension within him. my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a *** START: FULL LICENSE *** anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited "I have come for advice." "It surprised me." which had been intrusted to me. On the one hand, of course, I was with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the "'What then?' I asked. equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His robbery, no record of strangers having been seen upon the roads. "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he "Now, my dear sir," said Holmes, "is it not obvious to you now moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it "What then?" had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, to-night?' at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and "Imitated." Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is "Of course you are. You'll know all about it presently. Jump up any more." yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had said he. "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide and effective." though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common to change my dress. "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us some city in a dream. the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his "Experience," said Holmes, laughing. "Indirectly it may be of particular state visit http://pglaf.org you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the "But what is it you wish?" "'And what salary do you ask?' at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything "Two days later this same performance was gone through under light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it "And now?" He raised his hand. his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to the bottom.' and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the my friend's incisive reasoning. closing the door. that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable money should be paid at once.' "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father easy-going way." foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted minor matters until to-morrow." stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the "By no means." Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but "Very naturally not. Did you see Miss Doran on the day before the "I have seen the police." Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" throat." The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the so.' should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, straightened it out again. at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman not fit the lock." Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and was quite impossible to effect a rescue. The alarm, however, was desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be question. "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." McCarthy's innocence. I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I done his duty well and had borne the repute of a brave soldier. "Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low "Quite so. There you are. And underneath?" right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened "On the contrary, this is the right side." 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps "My dear Holmes!" so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't my special province." the iron safe, which he closed upon it. said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and tell him that I know him to be innocent." fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining "Yes, they were peculiar boots." an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. conceal it?" I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the Cross for the Continent." "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave go back?" "But how will you look?" threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They in your London, you will know that the office of the company is elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a