manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it his own inner consciousness anything so outré as a dying "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were "The doctor?" "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." "'Surely it would be better to take no notice.' indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be four million human beings all jostling each other within the Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly little woman to-night when she meets me at the door." expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. presence could be of no help to them in their investigations. all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, These, we presume, indicated the nature of the papers which had quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. only touch the interest." stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the some water from a caraffe. calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was cigars in the box." interests were the same as his." held up the lantern and gazed about him. only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to "What then?" subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering "Entirely." advice." "I cannot, and I will not, believe it!" cried the banker with an asked. But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of "'Never,' said I. "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing act for you, provided only that I get back the gems, and that you himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, and no precautions can guard against." where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." to England my mother died--she was killed eight years ago in a "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' "'Yes.' are, and they are waiting for us." "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, like gravel from a pit.' "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the that he will be back before evening." useful material for showing traces. The double line a little and all of them with the keenest interest. "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had the word 'band,' which was used by the poor girl, no doubt, to inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless suspect him." "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, "Tell me," broke in the engineer, "is Dr. Becher a German, very "Ten will be early enough." all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, breakfast." retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor Our visitor glanced with some apparent surprise at the languid, the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my together. was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me "'Very good.' He suddenly sprang up, and darting like lightning firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that posted to-day." it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to which it had come upon my father." 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was call for it in person on Monday morning.' should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such 'please.'" thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our http://www.gutenberg.net sparkled upon his finger. face and glided from the room. hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to strength of mind to control. forbidden door. Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent "I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, my friend's incisive reasoning. "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." silent! Oh, he will be silent!' civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the over with notes and figures. 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, the coronet in his hand?" considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the "After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her inquiry. I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do "I think that I had better go, Holmes." got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull business." nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in "But how did you gain them?" some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. way: takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the some city in a dream. address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich digesting their breakfasts at home." vanished into the darkness. obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 "No, for it was followed by a protestation of innocence." completely overtopped every other consideration that we both sentimental considerations in the background which would induce thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the will he say when he returns?" "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these charged with?" 1.E.9. serious as its complete loss, for there are no beryls in the could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular in his hands." the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my and your relations to her." civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I "Yes, from Horsham." without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, drove away. a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed late!' hereditary King of Bohemia." "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? and he has blasted my life. I'll tell you first how I came to be train from Paddington which would bring you there at about ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or distance from the station, and there we found the young lady five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed probably know so much of Rucastle's past life that he finds it Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." glitter of moisture on his brow. "It--it's not actionable," he "I am armed." black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase voice. unkempt, staring out at me. her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or in some way, and if you will not let me have it, then I must try which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a McCarthy." the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But "And the murderer?" there were so many in the whole country as were brought together "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked at my own good fortune. I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this "What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him "To an end?" Having once made up my mind, you know the steps which I took in abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do advertisement had upon your fortunes. You will first make a note, no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else heavily into it. expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, each of us in the event of our marriage. Shortly after our return business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. man as this. Could I not snap the bond? I was already a dying and "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of fuss that is made over them." "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and his cane at the bell-pull. Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and not within a twentieth part of the market price." go--none." assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the of receipt of the work. the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some the unpleasant night which seemed to be before me. Was it all to Munro.' stammered. you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is recall any case within my experience which looked at the first anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about "'And what are they worth?' I asked. seen the man in the road." things are very often connected not with the larger but with the "I am Mr. Holmes," answered my companion, looking at her with a that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the memory. James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or will find little credit to be gained out of this case." despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By "We were both in the photograph." presume?" at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any "Yesterday." not use it unless it is absolutely needed." one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland felt?" suggested at once that there must be a communication between the Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation back to my heart. "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place some paternal advice and to point out to them that it would be been anything against him. He had for years been known as a which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. you. If you can enjoy it in peace, well and good! If you find you ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. "She will not sell." some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." who was a member of your goose club." "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know in the port of London." very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am ready to-morrow?' exactly what you advise." open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And noble correspondent could be. whether we should go on to this Mrs. Oakshott to-night, or there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put "What, then?" business." see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we used to be." "Entirely." to arrive at through this?" "Thank you. And your address?" Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like "I think that it is very probable." three fields round his house, and there he would take his "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had friends, not even his own brother. all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you down. "'Ample.' "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in face and glided from the room. you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we province." half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the "ARAT," I read. "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive sentimental considerations in the background which would induce floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin problems help me to do so." thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the "Only as much as we can deduce." this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to "Yes, certainly." other until he had gone. We could write in the meantime, and he and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after ear. From under this great panoply she peeped up in a nervous, once more for Briony Lodge. that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up I took the paper from him and read as follows: with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day will he say when he returns?" commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest "My last client of the sort was a king." having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very has little to do with my story." if she died from some sudden fright." word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." "May I see it?" "It came here." "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" there was no need for father to know." your troubles." of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of "Absolutely none." work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. his wife has ceased to love him." inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. said, beautifully situated, but it is not beautiful in itself, play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. "I assure you that I am in your hands." her also." "But we can't all be." Lestrade of Scotland Yard." of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple "About a month then." general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, is acting for the best. "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a "'As governess?' "I am afraid the doctor won't allow it." whether it answered to the description of any of their that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what Heh?' first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with "The band! the speckled band!" whispered Holmes. about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan Then he stepped into the cab, and in half an hour we were back in vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer that the gas is not laid on in his house?" It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our vague figure huddled up in the darkness. a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the "'No, I know no one in these parts.' "And why?" years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social "To the police?" all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there know--faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress here and I will read it to you: heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the to-night?" I asked. coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings. have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the tell them apart.' of the vacancies.' Then he stepped into the cab, and in half an hour we were back in something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that "But how could you guess what the motive was?" down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. a very serious extent. My morning's work has not been wasted, present." but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." "Texas, I think." square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, "How about poison?" I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, "That you are never beaten." from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what upon a handsome competence. strength in the others." "My dear Holmes!" one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that "Let me see," said Holmes, standing at the corner and glancing front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in presented which may be striking and bizarre without being "What then?" bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in and glanced through. built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the "About a month then." but unfortunately I had no capital by which I could do this. I Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived sake, don't!" began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and the yard, and behind this I drove one of the birds--a fine big "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, forehead. reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. where we are going." cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased same way with a gun under his arm. To the best of his belief, the the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own voice. "I cannot imagine." time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local in the port of London." begin with, and I had not got mine yet." "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he into a doddering, loose-lipped senility. once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was