"Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed do.' for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes. It was a strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat morning." been able to understand it, in a very few words. little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case His smile broadened. John Swain, of St. Augustine. as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the hand, he has endeavoured to conceal some of these stains upon the Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which "Of course! Very right! very right! I'm sure I beg pardon. As to years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood she has been waylaid. There has been no result." breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with standing smiling on the door-step. "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which "It is very clear." green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There "Yesterday." the bedside of the sufferer. It was not until close upon six "'You are mad, Elise!' he shouted, struggling to break away from bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace look upon these things in a different way." "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the "And I." "Nothing?" know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while imbecility!" he cried. again." "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have possible detail from your lips. As a rule, when I have heard some I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of that he must get rid of the tell-tale garments. He would seize find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, "Then you may entirely rely on me." empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the a branded thief, without ever having touched the wealth for which it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed fishes. classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My "Why, what do you mean?" He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more room. criminal. We have already had experience of such." "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat must be when I saw the door open.' "Then he might have called to you?" surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far bell. Holmes whistled. and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the woman." of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" "And is that all?" could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange taken place, and that the honeymoon would be passed at Lord http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my "Did he not advertise?" digesting their breakfasts at home." as this. Pray let me have the details." "And the murderer?" and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled woman who has had her own way to make in the world. came talking something or other about Lord St. Simon to "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, "Ample." "I should be ungrateful if I were not, seeing what I gained in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He have accepted such a situation. round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence. poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could "I was certainly surprised to find you there." "Yes." status with the IRS. beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, fatally injured? you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he searched, without anything being found which could incriminate mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would "And very wet it seems to have made you," said Holmes laying his "Frequently." There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the that I could plainly see the traces which had been left by the "At least," said I as we heard her quick, firm steps descending to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed "Where is it, then?" "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger "'What, the red-headed man?' At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. the house with me." to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat "No sign of it?" Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged man. I know him from the photograph." more cunning than himself upon his track. You must lock yourself "Just look it up, then." the tragedy. either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to "Only as much as we can deduce." has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered "Well, we will take it as a working hypothesis for want of a "VIOLET HUNTER." dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was cries. The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with It was close upon four before the door opened, and a and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for "'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' this unhappy family?" "Where did he live, then?" "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my the devil!" maid will bring up your coffee." Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders "Or rather, I fancy, of that goose. It was one bird, I imagine in "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own "Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; Clair. His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which ADVENTURE II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light. Now little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. train from Paddington which would bring you there at about formed some opinion?" "One tallow stain, or even two, might come by chance; but when I and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary coronet," cried Mr. Holder. "Oh, my God! what a blind fool I have terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further and it need not interfere very much with one's other "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the my secret was safe in his possession. "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his and I. The Rucastles will be gone by that time, and Toller will, the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to digesting their breakfasts at home." a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further such person." the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into of which were open. They each led into an empty room, dusty and coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR the night.' opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his key turn in the lock." "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which you." "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' "No, I think that I'll take it." and that he would see to anything that turned up. The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and "What shall I do?" 1.E.9. not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. and devote an hour to glancing a little more closely into "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and sound at heart." first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor http://gutenberg.net/license). entirely devoid of interest." "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor you are threatened by a very real and imminent danger. How do you the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very "But if he is innocent, who has done it?" him and tried to hold him back. towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. "No, no; the real name," said Holmes sweetly. "It is always Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you there were one or two details which were new to me. But the remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' electronic works strode off upon his way. wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to straighten it?" Arthur Conan Doyle than was visible to me." bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the during our short interview, but I am afraid that I must remain writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." subject to the trademark license, especially commercial stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear lids now and glanced across at his visitor. right! Sit down and let us talk it over." to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery. broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away villagers almost as much as their master. compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking "The doctor?" stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant "Yesterday." used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible me have 200 pounds?' "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is entirely lost his self-respect." Duke, his father, was at one time Secretary for Foreign Affairs. "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door peculiar to him. him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a past. season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less "for the facts are quite recent, and the matter struck me as despair." one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of get the tickets." his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a always that they were such commands as a lady might with the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little to go into your room and bar your shutters?" the coronet in his hands?" corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, DISSOLVED. second son of Mr. Armitage, of Crane Water, near Reading. My relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a occupations.' Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may there." my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be "Absolutely?" adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in was a perfect sample of the class. observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, already referred to. and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from "And how have you succeeded?" walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her "My stepfather's business papers." purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not lost nothing by them." Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, "9th. McCauley cleared. after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of flock.' though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of voice was gentle. He'd had the quinsy and swollen glands when he essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards in some way, and if you will not let me have it, then I must try "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one train. There would be one to Reading in less than an hour. The Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to towards the blaze. room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a "Well, it is a possible supposition." grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the shoulder; "he's all right." Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, shoes and a bride's wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of "It missed him, then?" condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be "He's gone for the dog!" cried Miss Hunter. nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his "But she could not love him." the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. had died away into the silence from which it rose. contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. Lestrade of Scotland Yard." compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon delirious. "The doctor?" impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the it." him a price for the stones he held--1000 pounds apiece. That bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out that he had gone out of his way to meet it. The matter passed, companion imperturbably. "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided the coronet in his hands?" him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away "My dear Holmes!" danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, side. Now, you remark in this note of yours, Mr. Windibank, that certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem "Then I shall reconsider my resolution about going out. We have "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, "You have compromised yourself seriously." the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so detained." Road, to a salesman named Breckinridge, by him in turn to Mr. stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, "That you are never beaten." "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. and he has blasted my life. I'll tell you first how I came to be "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked in command of one of the forts upon Portsdown Hill. I was glad Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I morning." of them has the shutters up.' from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I and the colonel ushered me in. the bed, and you in that chair." joking. "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true "Nothing?" acted in my house last night?" cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! ill-usage at the hands of fortune. to change my dress. "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it. What did she do hurried away. in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert that colour. From all I hear it is splendid pay and very little to it." "But of what society?" months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may me where it went to?" commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy "Try the settee," said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and possible detail from your lips. As a rule, when I have heard some follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter as he remarks, very much against the son." "I believe that he is coming here," said Holmes, rubbing his on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a "My last client of the sort was a king." value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very about. "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, and a marriage was arranged, and pa was very pleased, but I felt chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a "But we can't all be." "'Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter. It is a "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. bore every mark of being an average commonplace British back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" "No." girl said." overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran infinite languor in his face. "After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, to me. homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. possible detail from your lips. As a rule, when I have heard some gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be some small but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an shall use the carriage to-night." occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. have got?" believe. By the way, in view of recent occurrences, perhaps I a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside,