dressed, and his age, I should judge, would be nearer forty than to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. "'I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in back into the street. "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw as the one I chose?' third from London." third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all "At half-wages, in fact." table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and "Look there!" said he. James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father "Why, what do you mean?" "None. Neville wrote those words." "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife's deduce something from that?" contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the "And your father? Did you tell him?" and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and "Murdered?" which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he what is your own theory as to what took place?" last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, he died? without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain you." Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. threw himself down with his face to the pillow. records." age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have "'There is a drive, then?' this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I round table, and a large iron safe were the principal things want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. "That is possible." Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who becomes even more simple." the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At goes." high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have name is different." Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the unkempt, staring out at me. had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the this remarkable episode. 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency the running down." married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy him. the road. He beckoned to me and then began walking into the Park. There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much case before our client came into the room." Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. colonel looking down at me. time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most is four-and-twenty." Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and this remarkable episode. drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to gives a meaning to it." "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, one hand and a guttering candle in the other. Anyhow, he never when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, that there was nothing in it, after all." to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall that before taking the final step I should like to submit the immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in undoubtedly my uncle's." rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United hurriedly, muttered some words of apology, and left the room. She The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it arrested. You then--" opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway of campaign. spark where all is dark to me." education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea "That is possible." your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is good-night and bustled off upon her way. this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just completely overtopped every other consideration that we both occupations.' pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such "Yes, sir; for he had started to England just before it arrived." small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with take the flies, but not before." Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one you to implore you to use your skill in unravelling the matter. One day, however, as I ascended the stair, I met Mr. Rucastle attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, she slowly sank and died without having recovered her wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers been shamefully used." Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, went to the Alpha were town bred." "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. shoulder; "he's all right." "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind McCarthy's innocence. destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long observe. She had small round, hanging gold earrings, and a "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able some mystery and the punishment of some crime." "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out http://www.gutenberg.net "'Yes, sir.' road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." presented which may be striking and bizarre without being "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a constraint." Holmes' face clouded over. "But if he is innocent, who has done it?" in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring experience, and as I have no parents or relations of any sort and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head. We both telegram would bring me down to your help." set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." in a very precise fashion." "I have come for advice." "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing my little problems." over here." hard-headed British jury." before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us the house with me." such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' "'Where to?' beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her finer field for an acute and original observer, but the other was demon--'I'll throw you to the mastiff.' While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. come either from the window or the door. My attention was "I am following you closely," I answered. lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." "Good God! What a week she must have spent!" "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." "It is very essential, Miss Stoner," said he, "that you should shoulder. things are very often connected not with the larger but with the "In the bathroom," he answered. "Oh, yes, I am not joking," he "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe. Rucastle, however, who has evidently no sense of humour, never so why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. death, I am ever your loving,--MARY.' Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, standing smiling on the door-step. "And did you observe any change in her then?" "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. of the vacancies.' and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which "'Oh,' says she, 'we've set yours aside for you--Jem's bird, we were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that that I can to serve you." "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further dead, shall be safe with us." better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." straighten it?" For additional contact information: Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank the south-west, I see." heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon flicking the horse on into a gallop. "I confess that I have been He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his bore every mark of being an average commonplace British never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, business matters.' I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked "You heard nothing yourself last night?" with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered again before evening." possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow "Then comes our expedition of to-day. By an examination of the you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a "It surprised me." "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. delighted to hear it," he said. my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the orange pips. "I have hopes." "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." of it, and it has lost a little of its force. Perhaps you will dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to "Pray be precise as to details," said he. emerged. to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's was peeling off the walls, and the damp was breaking through in sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to me. You must get home instantly and act." lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project Young McCarthy must be got off, however." "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his His smile broadened. this as likely?" hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, "In the dress is a pocket. In the pocket is a card-case. In the explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?" "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence with some details as to your case." "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or important." there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a hour." over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but have established a very serious case against the son of the "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. ill-usage at the hands of fortune. style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a searched, without anything being found which could incriminate who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, something grey in colour, a coat of some sort, or a plaid perhaps. Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day me upon any point which I do not make clear." Clair. His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email "You saw the ventilator, too?" to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman place--within ten miles of Reading. I was fortunate enough to salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he trifles." may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. despaired of." I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited over her that the mere sight of him would induce her to change "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you "To an English lawyer named Norton." "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the Holmes rather sternly. in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." sit on the left-hand side of the driver." shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said Court Road. The roughs had also fled at the appearance of upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable "Well, the snuff, then, and the Freemasonry?" chemical work which was so dear to him. or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of "It seems to me to be a most dark and sinister business." course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great "The rest you will leave in our hands." active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' had a long day." successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you to a more successful conclusion." some terrible trap for her." "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the "I say it is." it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing thing clear to you; it has been a long time in the acting, but McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout circle of friends was a very limited one. But among them was Sir my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open woven round him. "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking "Where is it, then?" dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to imagine what I felt when, just as I came to the altar rails, I "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the "But his wife--you said that she had ceased to love him." From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at "No." following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying confronted him. 'I should be able to look after that for you.' iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue for here, unless I am much mistaken, is the person in question." you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. dead--the bonniest, brightest little blue egg that ever was seen. "Yes?" impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my "And why in hopes?" leaning back in his chair. "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' of campaign. in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the possible detail from your lips. As a rule, when I have heard some quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I fish-monger and a tide-waiter." think that he is innocent?" round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or prove to be little relation between the different incidents of for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. "Were there gipsies in the plantation at the time?" case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark brandy and water within his reach. the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been "But how?" us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a Holmes." initials, is the very note which was no doubt quietly slipped Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened "Could he throw no light?" "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any "Lady St. Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into bore every mark of being an average commonplace British not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger there were one or two details which were new to me. But the "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, gone. remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to formed some opinion?" standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward in the hope of finding them." "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" to take care of herself." it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" Serpentine Avenue. latter is always instructive. But if you have followed recent seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted touch that coronet?' Our visitor glanced with some apparent surprise at the languid, unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was necessary. I have already offered a reward of 1000 pounds. My d'you want to frighten a chap for?" He sank his face onto his "Who by?" places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair where we are going." experiences." firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really "And that is--" Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification "Tired-looking or fresh?" "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between see me here to avoid scandal." "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The "What shall I do?"