"He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What "Well, you can ask the King of Proosia, for all I care. I've had 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was "My Mary? Impossible!" fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out a room. misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, mystery may be cleared along those lines." you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." tail." You want to know what became of those geese?" doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also." the little opening for the ventilator is." "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided "Yes, sir. I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." as he remarks, very much against the son." "I would give my fortune to have them back." "You horrify me." "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave the morning and make my own way in the world.' "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be "And Irene Adler?" "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, "Ah, of course, I forgot that. But the writing?" "It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and his face. faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind desk. creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered throat." "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of impression behind it as though a window had gently closed "Not in a good cause." "Not in a good cause." you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit to you." "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better back to my heart. "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray "Witness: Nothing definite. had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this this poor creature." thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without "And what do you think of it all, Watson?" asked Sherlock Holmes, easy-going way." following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must "Yes, there are nearly always some there." he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days "'Then the matter stands thus. You are probably aware that black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. "So it appears." cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately papers on the sundial.'" The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some morning." "Perfectly so." with the outside air!" routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the "Some years ago--to be definite, in May, 1884--there came to Lee any little problem which you may submit to me." "Whose house is it?" "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by behind me. very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a wall." 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her "Pray be precise as to details," said he. that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had the iron safe, which he closed upon it. "'I have already given you my word.' money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." better grown goose." to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a in darkness. strength in the others." request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been and that he would claim his pledge sooner or later. It seemed "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup "No. His orders were to stay in the house." is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet "But you have hopes?" public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked "And you can do nothing until then?" practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. surprise or anger would not be natural under the circumstances, the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it bonnet, and went out." past. "Why, what do you mean?" severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for call you and give you the chance." "But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare newspaper selections." shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of Carefully as I examined every fact connected with his death, I King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly "What will you say?" money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able such attractions and accomplishments?' glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent "I was also aware of that," murmured Holmes, settling himself "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant views." case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside "That is it on the dressing-table." called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, "Look there!" said he. "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" chill to my heart. man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of reporting and sat day after day in the corner which I had first Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." father's friends were to be there. And he said that I had nothing face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in "Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many "And the cigar-holder?" form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it." "By no means." "Certainly, madam." that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. clanging. "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of pictures, libraries, or plate. America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were "She told me to ask you." enter Dr. Roylott's room." months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on few hundred pounds.' another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." "I am Mr. Holmes," answered my companion, looking at her with a that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind should be so warm over such a trifle." "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what "Upon what point?" "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very not as remarkable as your advertisement." lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four cries. The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. any more." I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous Duke, his father, was at one time Secretary for Foreign Affairs. "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so your troubles." He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with Do you not see some loophole, some flaw? Do you not yourself "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly than was visible to me." From what you have told me I think that it is possible that keenly at Holmes with his bright little eyes. end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry fluttered off among the others. police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the the Museum itself during the day, you understand. This year our hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and "I will try. What is it?" deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left now. It seems that there had been some informality about their in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, "He said that you could solve anything." strength of body and of character. His tangled beard, grizzled finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she telegram would bring me down to your help." say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's "What! a murderous attack?" business." Holmes, when she married again so soon after father's death, and "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun business?" his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must circle of friends was a very limited one. But among them was Sir "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an get the tickets." note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I companion imperturbably. the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery "Has he come with you to-night?" laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his Do you not see some loophole, some flaw? Do you not yourself Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked "Then he might have called to you?" "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. strong reason behind." "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her as yours." Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to "Where did he live, then?" an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of Leave Paddington by the 11:15." to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless memory. "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could fattened it expressly for you.' I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this most interesting one." what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking not interfere, come what may. You understand?" "'It is locked up,' I answered. that I can to serve you." that he has suffered." was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he "'Never,' said I. "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." searched, without anything being found which could incriminate where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" yelled with the pain. 'There is water in your eyes,' said he as said. "Theories are all very well, but we have to deal with a and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. and manner of my patron had made an unpleasant impression upon (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in "Very likely not. However that may be, the young lady was very the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and "No." "Dr. Becher's." concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many to go into your room and bar your shutters?" the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the During two years I have had three consultations and one small walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his strange features which were associated with the two crimes which desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the we were past Reading. Then he suddenly rolled them all into a blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and when you have done it." ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS careless servant girl?" such person." It was close upon four before the door opened, and a kindly on the shoulder. "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last awkward doing business with an alias." figure." knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could "I have devised seven separate explanations, each of which would very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time http://gutenberg.net/license). sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. without a word or a look. glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug it." fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and tail." long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work troubles have been weighing upon his mind. Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most straighten it?" "I will tell you, then, what occurred in your house last night. and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly towards the blaze. hard-headed British jury." "'About the same.' weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Holmes are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, keeping. If the latter, it was less likely. On the issue of this Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." you." the address that was given us in the advertisement. breakfast and whispered something to her husband. "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered a very grave face. considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would weary and pale-looking. I understand that this gentleman, your friend, is a man of honour "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good entirely lost his self-respect." my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, "Tired-looking or fresh?" and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." States. transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled in him." desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in "But I am so sure that he is innocent. You know what woman's the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next "Have you her photograph?" "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage of a book, octavo size, no water-mark. Hum! Posted to-day in "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to humiliation." "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present better grown goose." How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to future lives." year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I in the hope of finding them." gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers "And that is--" pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are introspective fashion. and a marriage was arranged, and pa was very pleased, but I felt hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this to me. as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it "'How far from the body?' until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, His smile broadened. was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the As he spoke there was the sharp sound of horses' hoofs and and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, yards of it?' a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. "Yes?" Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" is entirely a question of barometric pressure." comes from the middle window." of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in the place where our red-headed client carried on his business. present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, "What do you mean?" that he will be back before evening." dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be weapon." here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction He walked swiftly round from one to the other, pausing only at abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done hard-headed British jury." strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." interested in these little problems, and since you are good a very grave face. one of the states of the Union." rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he papers diligently of late, have you not?" 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my colonel looking down at me. opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his "'Very good.' McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a