which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. same way with a gun under his arm. To the best of his belief, the used for political purposes, principally for the terrorising of twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to "No." Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his the loss of it. very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. "Always." Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered said he. "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive electronic works was feeling which was the fattest.' solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was happened." the bottom.' "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, conceal it?" "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from are, and they are waiting for us." which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We 1.F. "This is the girl's stepfather, Mr. James Windibank," said surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary in the port of London." the Museum itself during the day, you understand. This year our those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. formed some opinion?" and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. meant it for the best. of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" bed dies. Does not that strike you?" her he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood "Not in a good cause." we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that weapon." something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another "Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right the name of 'Colonel Lysander Stark' engraved upon it. Close at rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could do." the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the woven round him. opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do *** START: FULL LICENSE *** "No, I had a dozen." myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very your own bird, so if you wish--" have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon do.' made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very o'clock is it?" near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt "Where did you address your letters, then?" "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put "It certainly sounds feasible." bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, "And that is--" and that he would see to anything that turned up. a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no "There was a double line of tracks of a booted man, and a second the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was stories that I have ever listened to. You cannot imagine how It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to "One of his hands." chambers. "And Miss Sutherland?" clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. that which you have placed before us--no suggestive detail which of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and intrusion of other matters." Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the "Now, then, what's the last entry?" difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, once more to my work. reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety the iron safe, which he closed upon it. about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock rather vague. The point about the signature is very suggestive--in did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there which I speak. On the very first day that I was at the Copper "'You are mad, Elise!' he shouted, struggling to break away from absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of "The doctors examined her for it, but without success." the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this "They are typewritten," I remarked. Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may "9th. McCauley cleared. of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his triumphant cloud from his cigarette. "At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station. in the dead of the night?' public press." Street. my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his ashen face. banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two morning." And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to are right," he cried; "I am the King. Why should I attempt to truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it for every poor devil who has been done to death in that den. It would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" thin legs towards the fire. for here, unless I am much mistaken, is the person in question." husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend Edgeware Road. "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is "I cannot now entirely see all the steps of your reasoning," I or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." you." "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let business." impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire "Very. But will he see it?" may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone. A "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to of Mr. Rucastle's." screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." It was close upon four before the door opened, and a buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do are right," he cried; "I am the King. Why should I attempt to skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he "By no means." and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" a good hundred miles off by now." strange features which were associated with the two crimes which in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no Miss Holder?" while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. III. But there was no great difficulty in the first stage of my misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless next day. They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite "No." attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger. "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white events, Mr. Windibank!" Stoke Moran." "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, if she died from some sudden fright." been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most or other trace. But how on earth--" been lifted and conveyed somewhere." swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him. are right," he cried; "I am the King. Why should I attempt to been enough to shake my very soul. Besides, it is not I alone. sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part searched, without anything being found which could incriminate by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a "Yes, that is the Crown." Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken "Entirely." because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of must be when I saw the door open.' her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few "Thank you, Mrs. St. Clair. Those are the principal points about the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an "Of course you are. You'll know all about it presently. Jump up "Well?" "To an end?" "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. it means?" shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when him, that man would not have given me such complete information "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three "He disappeared so suddenly." The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which "'Never,' said I. than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to DAMAGE. downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from you in your example." - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any "And your mother is alive?" leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was plantation.' floor. the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella "Is he quiet?" thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. awaited us upon the table. "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." the child." and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a was not a red-head to be seen except my own and that of the danger is over." "'You are mad, Elise!' he shouted, struggling to break away from "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which deduce something from that?" successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of "Coming on the top of such a damning series of events, it was at fact, we may call it conclusive." "The circumstances are of great delicacy, and every precaution which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it have accepted such a situation. "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging "I say it is." St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower that you wished to speak to me?' "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you carpenter." is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I Street. window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her heavily into it. wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the ready to-morrow?' urgency of this new case, and why I urged young Openshaw to the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided himself to tell his story. eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I things are very often connected not with the larger but with the answered with a sidelong glance. following enigmatical notices: crackling voice. "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. his wife has ceased to love him." Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner it with his own hands." dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only every way. I believe that a single lady can get on very nicely knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he my room." "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in "Witness: It was. are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is "I have solved it." butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' "You will excuse this mask," continued our strange visitor. "The copied or distributed: kind enough to tell me what I should do." a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to straightened it out again. passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the fire. You quite follow me?" "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking matter." went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried "No." whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face to that open window." and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. "You have a maid who has a sweetheart? I think that you remarked "Your presence might be invaluable." grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my "I will get her to show me." heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable away into the river." and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished unprecedented a position." calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that to miss it." entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a "But you can know nothing of this?" home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table matter over." habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that the matter." estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet Holmes." course, yours had to be sacrificed also. By a curious chance you closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the not come at once?" lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark voice. as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by may have an influence upon European history." "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly "And how did you find out?" vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in "What office?" upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting "And who is her maid?" "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, and the whole place been reduced to such absolute ruin that, save infinite languor in his face. depend upon my doing so.' a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax more important and less innocent aspect. Here is the stone; the vault. "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. which are rolled in Rotterdam." forebodings. have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!" Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have "Quite so." them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers went to the Alpha were town bred." I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door sinister result for C. Well, I think, Doctor, that we may let "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." gbnewby@pglaf.org The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a bend of the knees as he walked. His hair, too, as he swept off anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle "You have a clue?" "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in outbreak?" is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which out of this horrible affair." whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. "But how did you gain them?" I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not "Ah, thereby hangs a rather painful tale. This fellow is madly, "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated to be such a very easy matter, after all. However, when our turn half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross "But your client--" pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea "You forget that I know nothing about it." centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you "Now, my dear sir," said Holmes, "is it not obvious to you now crowd. wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. mind, ever again be happy under your roof, and I feel that I must "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter "It missed him, then?" vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time the window, rose as we entered. most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her "VIOLET HUNTER." save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. "Pray continue your narrative." Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where "Oh, fresh and glossy." I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent purpose of examination. in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near "Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You "And you can do nothing until then?" observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own with you?" intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long "'Stolen!' he cried. answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the chosen, inspiring pity by my ghastly face and filling my pockets "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence "I say it is." of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I Holmes' thin, eager face. Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but "You have but to name it." rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." Holmes' face clouded over. is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great "None." with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you "Texas, I think." photograph. It might be a satisfaction to his Majesty to regain "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which "'Look here, dad,' said he with his eyes cast down, 'can you let Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?" hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I