"That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little "There is the writing." as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this lost nothing by them." collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at "But how did you gain them?" remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for "It is his hat." only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. strode off upon his way. "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you "'Stolen!' he cried. I took a step forward. In an instant his strange headgear began ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would call the police, let the police find what they can.' silent! Oh, he will be silent!' heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. asked. aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he garden below. "'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered. shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a we went to search for him, face downward in a little Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to address. gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when his wife has ceased to love him." "What! a murderous attack?" "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his Serpentine Avenue. finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic "Yes, only one." "The Cedars?" would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! fuss that is made over them." country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of What do you deduce from it?" things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works for a left-handed gentleman with a game leg. I should become the volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and "I see many objections to any such theory." outside. "And now?" I asked. 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was which had been presented to him, and he even broke into a Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in "And you don't know his address?" near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' what I may call a really hard day's work." "You are certainly joking, Holmes." the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think you are threatened by a very real and imminent danger. How do you opened a pocket-book and took out a note. Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp help us in this matter." right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." dangerous men in England--a ruined gambler, an absolutely "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" "I was mad--insane." "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was of which were open. They each led into an empty room, dusty and "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' "I am all attention, madam." "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." "Then, as to money?" crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." suspect him." iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His Heh?' "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. "And I." call for it in person on Monday morning.' Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his But Holmes shook his head gravely. mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in room had already been engaged for us. one which it was hard to resist. pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." Nights, with no explanation save that the things had been paid dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." Road, to a salesman named Breckinridge, by him in turn to Mr. hurriedly, muttered some words of apology, and left the room. She of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had "Yesterday." heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it. What did she do house for five minutes.' other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. my mind is made up that I will accept it. I thought, however, "I guessed as much." see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a window, cut at me with his heavy weapon. I had let myself go, and note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." and pay our debts, if we do nothing more. sound at heart." beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital Nights, with no explanation save that the things had been paid coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit "How can you tell that?" empty. humiliation." 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that Stoke Moran." works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use "'I should be happy to make myself useful.' "Not social, then?" Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering "An enemy?" Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may undoubtedly my uncle's." request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or affair. A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was "Do you receive much company?" he asked. left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that "None." interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the future lives." "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are of which were open. They each led into an empty room, dusty and actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the "There's a cold-blooded scoundrel!" said Holmes, laughing, as he lamp. works. See paragraph 1.E below. rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a to take care of herself." to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For "It seems to me to be a most dark and sinister business." you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his "The gentleman I describe." depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to gone. Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the 'I should be able to look after that for you.' idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was "I say it is." arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told "It was a confession," I ejaculated. made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 "They must be cunning devils," he exclaimed at last. "How could States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a The telegram which we eventually received came late one night elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised "Here?" play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, "Perhaps I have." mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in him. he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his me what he had done with the three missing stones. matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of dates and names. that you also have been unfortunate enough to lose your wife's reach." are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be "Oh, indeed! Then you think that the Serpentine plays no part in low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could bird of prey. Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that and wait." reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I bill, which interests me deeply." am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that humiliation." with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here fashion until his eyes were just two little shining slits amid girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be some small "Then what has happened to him?" "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, sit on the left-hand side of the driver." season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and until night should bring an explanation. "Whose house is it?" "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a yet." every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; appeal." my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover cries. The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with was it brought him the coronet? our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be me where it went to?" I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my "Perhaps we may make them less so." we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in probably know so much of Rucastle's past life that he finds it as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would Suddenly a door opened at the other end of the passage, and a "Tired-looking or fresh?" even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There papers on the sundial.'" character. to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' undoubtedly my uncle's." our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." It was about ten minutes before we regained our cab and drove Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone. A nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and his eyes and forehead. it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away "Then the page we have seen--" Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that both rushed upon him and tore him away to the centre of the room. that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest and your relations to her." "I see many objections to any such theory." crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows father's place of business?" outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming that I may have something better before very many minutes are with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with new acquaintance to Baker Street. has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he "I warn you that they are very incomplete." you in yours." "Then you may be so with me." "You will not go there first?" certainly the last human being whose eyes rested upon Neville St. "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." "She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really "The gentleman I describe." "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' being in the central block of the buildings. Of these bedrooms "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here "Was the window open?" problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one was used.' frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to "'What then?' I asked. seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which conversation I have gathered that they have been married about "Whose house is it?" "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped "But how did you gain them?" "No, I must go. My heart is lightened already since I have "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited being in the central block of the buildings. Of these bedrooms James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over "What will you say?" "A client, then?" property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public he, "of course you can hardly avoid publicity. On the other hand, at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew "Pray let us have it, for all that." vanished into the darkness. "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. on re-entering her father's house?" from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. "In view of your health, nothing. You are yourself aware that you that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is "What is it, then--a fire?" "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all trying to your nerves." on in his house." data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!" "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." seen the man in the road." "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy instincts are. I know that he has done no harm and that you will which had been presented to him, and he even broke into a pictures, libraries, or plate. and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in "I saw nothing remarkable save the bell-rope, and what purpose should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of "'Yes, sir.' This is what he says: which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." exposure. He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet bachelor.' "You are hungry," I remarked. If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with that there was nothing in it, after all." going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a vanished into the darkness. number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our fish-monger and a tide-waiter." "And I to find an enemy." "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted morning." very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no invisible to me," I remarked. strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him colonel looking down at me. pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. results." age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will caressing and soothing his manner was--'and what has frightened and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is "May I see it?" correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we my former friend and companion. the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst plantation.' and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your "I am sure." now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her that?' when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study the tragedy. shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to stories that I have ever listened to. You cannot imagine how all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they "I think that I had better go, Holmes." "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss call you and give you the chance." answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power even of instruction." age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot "My private note-paper." "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more cries. The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of "Yes." Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about "'Entirely.' laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you had foresight, but has less now than formerly, pointing to a business at Coburg Square is serious." gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your to surprise her." what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. "But what is it you wish?" it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like "Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It door behind him. "It is quite certain that he knows nothing mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do we went to search for him, face downward in a little "On your arm?" while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to head. So long, then!" "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler "I am following you closely," I answered. with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs "What then?" broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he "No." It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and returning from some small jollification and was making his way one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who "'You doubt its value?' he asked. the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my infinite languor in his face. his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I Pope's Court. weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I himself to tell his story. so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a "Well." "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of criminal. We have already had experience of such." make me his representative both with the servants and with the "Yes, that is the Crown." building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some name is different." of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at more important and less innocent aspect. Here is the stone; the playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others points to suicide?" that?' "You'll never persuade me to believe that." unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward some place of shelter and let the county police know what has attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the we were past Reading. Then he suddenly rolled them all into a "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no Henry Baker is a member." "I would give my fortune to have them back." likely to be some crony of the landlady's." "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. said he at last. and your relations to her." man's hat, on which he raised his stick to defend himself and, "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. "What office?" end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of your troubles." "It's nothing of the kind." the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as