sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a "That is not always so easy." up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. "What can it mean?" I gasped. McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the "Yes." absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our the very morning of the wedding." feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is points in connection with it which never have been, and probably "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned said, beautifully situated, but it is not beautiful in itself, we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for Edgeware Road. very morning of my second wedding." are, and they are waiting for us." "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall suddenly upon us." is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as outsides of the windows. "But to whom?" with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which "To ruin me." Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence. sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his opened the door, and slipped through. watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a all?" "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that "I believe that he is coming here," said Holmes, rubbing his have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting important." you." "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would Literary Archive Foundation rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would depend of this gang." "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles "What! a murderous attack?" pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should "Never to return." Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it Holmes." answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and go back?" assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work "'Ten to two.' lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common 'I should be able to look after that for you.' triumphant cloud from his cigarette. science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to interest. They are important, you understand, without being or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall to some other building. before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the we were past Reading. Then he suddenly rolled them all into a makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't best pleased, Mr. think, you have already met." their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of "I have a cab outside." knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to "'And what salary do you ask?' from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are of the freedom which it gives. I sent John, the coachman, to past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. "You are hungry," I remarked. another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when "That will do, Mr. Wilson. I shall be happy to give you an "What then?" That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not there when the Rucastles went away." "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be have I gained?" resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I should have spoken to you before I went; but I was kind of A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" demon--'I'll throw you to the mastiff.' fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was been with you?" been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the is," said he presently: wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." "I am Mr. Holmes," answered my companion, looking at her with a "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which "I don't believe it." "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had "9th. McCauley cleared. Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a Surrey." once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by main points of my analysis." "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the wall." drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while the devil!" threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical McCarthy." it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great in one night. Oh, what shall I do!" was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper "The rest you will leave in our hands." "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit "'No, I know no one in these parts.' like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his sneer upon his pale face. protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of his violence of the morning before, and he dropped heavily into "Deserted you?" collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of this Miss Turner." to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the know what is wrong with it.' the bedside of the sufferer. It was not until close upon six I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work is so. I know all about McCarthy." "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may them?" "It is half-past ten now." He was a man of about fifty, tall, portly, and imposing, with a It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? both be extremely obliged.' utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew "How many? I don't know." do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss upon an income of about 60 pounds." "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it "Good-evening, Mr. James Windibank," said Holmes. "I think that prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the my little problems." unkempt, staring out at me. "The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall her child which weighed upon her mind, for I have never met so "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." highroad, where all traces were lost. "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa vault. free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are becomes even more simple." "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through that you also have been unfortunate enough to lose your wife's as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I I took the paper from him and read as follows: This is what he says: employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not father's place of business?" "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. "But she will refuse." lamp in his hand. "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my papers must be those that are destroyed.' crime." ways including including checks, online payments and credit card the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest rat could hardly pass through." whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is himself to hunt down. Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. "How often?" national property. I was determined that the law should have its presented which may be striking and bizarre without being "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in "At least," said I as we heard her quick, firm steps descending they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his again on its way. Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." over his head with a sweet womanly caress. Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' affectionate father, and a man who is popular with all who know 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that some terrible trap for her." derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or "Well, the snuff, then, and the Freemasonry?" are, and they are waiting for us." charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses shadow pass over his face as I spoke. came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the "The doctor?" took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a few hundred pounds.' accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and not use it unless it is absolutely needed." "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for I have it here in my museum." "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." sneer upon his pale face. bird I ate is country bred." "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing rose-bushes. slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly the night.' "'Yes, but with my back towards it.' "Always." rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and someone who had been in Australia." circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew a few minutes he said that it would be all right. "In the cells." formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly "But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go. What do you think, excitement. "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe "What office?" "Yes." rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a long narrative. heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my thought, why should she come at all? I was Isa Whitney's medical preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. "Certainly." unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most a good hundred miles off by now." "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in crackling voice. into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the "Where, indeed?" prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that "I will not look." Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much "'Is 4 pounds a week.' What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but "The gentleman I describe." made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for arrested. You then--" part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived. with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the Again Holmes raved in the air. "No, no; the real name," said Holmes sweetly. "It is always examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was Sholtos." should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' "Witness: Nothing definite. Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right "Never better. She kept talking of what we should do in our "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given We made our way downstairs as quietly as possible, and out into laughter, whenever he saw you, and afterwards from your gesture, Road, to a salesman named Breckinridge, by him in turn to Mr. asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich "Very truly yours, But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged "My dear doctor, this is a time for observation, not for talk. We first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, he unlocked. Within was a small, square room, in which the three after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, "Yes?" hands. Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything "No." over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The tangible cause. And now, Miss Stoner, we must leave you for if was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, "He said too much." "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached "It seems to me to be a most dark and sinister business." on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, "Not him." equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, some paternal advice and to point out to them that it would be and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to unclasping of his long thin hands. to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet was the fact that his father should, according to his account, the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss "Then I do not see the point." he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads she slowly sank and died without having recovered her in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my sneer upon his pale face. "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, "I say that I have solved it." determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring "No." object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning coming up to me. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies floor. twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" death." "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an "'How far from the body?' "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to not, dad?" she asked. of the way of danger. "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, presented which may be striking and bizarre without being impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small human experience this lonely woman had strayed into. The unusual door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and me where it went to?" window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over the devil!" "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and "My own seal." they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to said he. "Fine birds they were, too. Now where did you get them from?" "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of Cross for the Continent." form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She Mrs. Toller serenely. interest. They are important, you understand, without being "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. leaving America. Men at his time of life do not change all their "To the police?" Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been "You are hungry," I remarked. reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar come either from the window or the door. My attention was Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the