"Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, "Your sister is dead, then?" opportunities to fix the problem. clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I through." with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by nothing with him." One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the than to us. time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This morning, but I must be back before three o'clock, for Mr. and said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many "Because he was handy and would come cheap." deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; "You don't mind breaking the law?" and inquire as to the address." my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." "He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door--that is to the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak "I shall be delighted." surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must such attractions and accomplishments?' set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." "What steps will you take?" I asked. know all about it," he snarled. been able to understand it, in a very few words. "What!" he roared. as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what "What will you do, then?" minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got You can understand that this register and diary may implicate trying to your nerves." my friend's incisive reasoning. of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at me what he had done with the three missing stones. vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my derbies." "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat certainly not very gracious." case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him. delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him her child which weighed upon her mind, for I have never met so Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into "I am armed." All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the "The gentleman I describe." "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger the warnings." flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and interests were the same as his." broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the narrative." are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He noble correspondent could be. fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we public press." "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to into a doddering, loose-lipped senility. "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in said he at last. glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive "You saw the ventilator, too?" Does that suggest anything?" fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us. "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, American. Then who could this American be, and why should he wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry of Fenchurch Street." "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, France he was very annoyed at your having gone to the ball." away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his "Well, some hundreds of times." me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander Holmes rose and sat down at the table with his pen in his hand the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned character. of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would depend the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for "Dr. Becher's." is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to get no farther, for they had covered their traces in a way that "To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the "I am armed." me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that "I cannot as yet see any connection." that was my true wedding after all those years of waiting. Frank "12th. Visited Paramore. All well." without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very woman who has had her own way to make in the world. brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark "for it made me angry to see the easy way in which Mr. at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! horse could go." precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not "No, I am descending." to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite "Just look it up, then." hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." "Why? What do you mean?" vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, "A call for help, you thought?" "My dear doctor, this is a time for observation, not for talk. We square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and unforeseen catastrophe has occurred to him?" Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, office, my clerk entered to say there was a gentleman waiting who "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time dead--the bonniest, brightest little blue egg that ever was seen. direction." dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that that was my true wedding after all those years of waiting. Frank wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of "Was your sister dressed?" absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my http://gutenberg.net/license). ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon disturbance in my wife." it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him "How did you trace it, then?" hereditary King of Bohemia." might help us?" arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal drove away. Miss Holder?" met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his front of the hall door has given its name to the place. "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. bonnet, and went out." gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United "No good news?" "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was heavily into it. unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw the best of training." "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. "He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door--that is to "It is very essential, Miss Stoner," said he, "that you should every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." fish-monger and a tide-waiter." company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an "I have solved it." grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, which had been intrusted to me. On the one hand, of course, I was gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who papers diligently of late, have you not?" wager. Well, Watson, we are, I fancy, nearing the end of our superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless taking in every detail of the apartment. during our short interview, but I am afraid that I must remain planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us charge against him will break down." Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips Sholtos." a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. Holmes." with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to directors have had misgivings upon the subject." room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his "Were there gipsies in the plantation at the time?" Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding "Then let us do so. Watson, I fear that you will find it very before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than anything to do with the matter?" "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. handed it to him. need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any "Fine birds they were, too. Now where did you get them from?" alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the tassel actually lying upon the pillow. 1.E.9. It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. their mission. You see how quickly the deed followed the sign reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered "Absolutely?" "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by 'you seem to have quite a suite of spare rooms up there, and one absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of least a most suspicious remark." the coronet in his hands?" in a friendly supper." invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could ADVENTURE IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. "Bought." me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." any little problem which you may submit to me." "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little "Of course! Very right! very right! I'm sure I beg pardon. As to so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy his own inner consciousness anything so outré as a dying ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and "A confidential servant?" "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my American gentleman, had left only the day before, and on looking weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser. As you "No." his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been one of the states of the Union." "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." particulars. It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and returned to France?" "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass lost nothing by them." Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, "I have seen the police." its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every the coronet in his hand?" gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common do you make of it all?" Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two morning." reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe 'please.'" "'Oh, no.' October 9, 1890. line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the before the coroner and the police-court." preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect that the gas is not laid on in his house?" We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps "Stoke Moran?" said he. something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his "Yes." 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than details should find their way into the papers. Inspector "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the outside." "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No will confine my attentions to the excellent bird which I perceive door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat colour had been driven from his face. more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have "Come," cried the inspector, laughing; "it's a very pretty am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two and that he would claim his pledge sooner or later. It seemed "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the "I could do with much less than that, Mr. Holmes, but you "Ten will be early enough." She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it "But his lameness?" furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the should be taken.' sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" "Some years ago--to be definite, in May, 1884--there came to Lee "Yes; and he seemed to think, with me, that something had "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, more important and less innocent aspect. Here is the stone; the expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to call you and give you the chance." has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, mystery!" apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in "Nor running a chance of arrest?" fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are "On the contrary, this is the right side." "How do you know, then?" have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little before the coroner and the police-court." always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but "'What, the red-headed man?' income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous tell him that I know him to be innocent." justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people hair?' it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in been destroyed by Colonel Openshaw. For the rest, there was problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it is worth.' thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as "But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water to-night's adventure." the general public were present, then?" to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to instituted." "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" again, where I was soon asleep. written, and locked the door of the office after me. "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did the name of 'Colonel Lysander Stark' engraved upon it. Close at crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be on such a day and at such an hour. But I take it that it is more believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" really the only notable feature about the thing." be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a "About a month then." and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see "The knees of his trousers." matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of where Mr. Fordham shows you.' this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger. "I reached this one," said my friend, "by sitting upon five Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of "And when will you call?" threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have helping a boy to put up the shutters. the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What "'And the work?' bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On "Because he was handy and would come cheap." look dissatisfied." it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but "Certainly." the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method an introduction to him?" and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I Pope's Court. it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' "What is it, then--a fire?" "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep "Really, Mr. Holmes," said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting American gentleman, had left only the day before, and on looking little rat-faced fellow standing in the centre of the circle of The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the "To an end?" "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was "Here?" McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' outbreak?" "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my their singular warning or token before them when starting upon first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in "No, your secret lies in London. It is there that I shall seek and I. The Rucastles will be gone by that time, and Toller will, Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was disappearance of these gems?" "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three and that if I had acted differently this terrible misfortune "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally of receipt of the work. "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. Lee, in the county of Kent." following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in "And that is--" We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be "And you can do nothing until then?" relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into "Did he not advertise?" Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is third from London." sparkled upon his finger. "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute "Very naturally not. Did you see Miss Doran on the day before the attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, "But she could not love him." "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." "'Don't be frightened,' said my employer, laughing at the start "It is a question of hydraulics, you see, and came within my own authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds something of him before." one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not digesting their breakfasts at home." myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my if only as a check to my own memory." owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at whereabouts. "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." occupation, but was interested in several companies and went into With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Holmes of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled III. "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass "And what then?" companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of Our visitor glanced with some apparent surprise at the languid, laid before you. I suppose that we are absolutely safe from expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" you. If you can enjoy it in peace, well and good! If you find you some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the other until he had gone. We could write in the meantime, and he lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was