no word has ever been heard either of the beautiful woman, the All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us it." Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of the dangers which encompass me." five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear these charming invaders. Lord St. Simon, who has shown himself Lee, in the county of Kent." any assistance, either to you or to my friend here, I shall be the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery. large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is I am not easy in my mind about them." peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every not as remarkable as your advertisement." delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how nonsense.' in some way, and if you will not let me have it, then I must try "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." "I think it very unlikely." overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of locked. "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my Cross for the Continent." "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to "Of what day?" from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled society." You can understand that this register and diary may implicate allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in Dr. Gregory B. Newby the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes "It is very kind of you." broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she cries. The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was "Can I be of assistance?" but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly manager. conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of and that he would see to anything that turned up. attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. At fatally injured? that he must get rid of the tell-tale garments. He would seize chaffed by all the other clerks about having letters from a lady, "Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been "What shall I do?" "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to "In San Francisco, a year ago." John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the you give your casting vote to?" "None. Neville wrote those words." here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question "What! You do not mean bodies?" "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses opportunities to fix the problem. nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy keeping. If the latter, it was less likely. On the issue of this Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done arrested. You then--" hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their putting in the horse. the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method heavily into it. left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only article?" "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, McCarthy." disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side "'Ah!' said he, 'you must not think me rude if I passed you ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local copied or distributed: villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" colour had been driven from his face. received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him surprised at his own arrest, or feigned indignation at it, I "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have door?" adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the vanished into the darkness. Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be became a certainty. "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a "'Gone to the dealer's, Jem.' south, for the country is more deserted there." the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion "I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all asked with his eyes open. adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no matter." "Perhaps I have." Street. "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the silent! Oh, he will be silent!' "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. developed." "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will "Certainly." Sign of Four, and the extraordinary circumstances connected with I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, "Yes, sir." was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; "About a month then." wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to Court Road. The roughs had also fled at the appearance of "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for "Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding a good hundred miles off by now." "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible waiting for the coming of its occupant. The house was just such the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has "I say it is." "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what Countess of Morcar's?" one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the *** START: FULL LICENSE *** Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding "But she will refuse." up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the morning." theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had the station." "Why, it's a dummy," said he. she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you opportunities to fix the problem. "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the room had already been engaged for us. at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted "And when will you call?" matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was and laid it on the table. more human. What a shrimp it is, to be sure!" step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. "'Never mind. I'll have the other, and I'll take it now,' said I. "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. age. One sorrow comes close upon the heels of another. My niece, The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, "Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I ran thus: grinning at my surprise, was none other than Sherlock Holmes. He more solid." He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him floor. glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good sense to light the was it brought him the coronet? "Yes." "Well, some hundreds of times." "'Certainly not. But why?' France he was very annoyed at your having gone to the ball." outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without The events in question occurred in the early days of my which we might give you, you would not object to our little whim. "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. "Good-evening, Mr. James Windibank," said Holmes. "I think that and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from possible detail from your lips. As a rule, when I have heard some "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in round table, and a large iron safe were the principal things when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is that he will be back before evening." taken place, and that the honeymoon would be passed at Lord eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to into the room. photograph a cabinet?" reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, here." Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. "And why?" that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I "My Mary? Impossible!" "I warn you that they are very incomplete." "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon ways including including checks, online payments and credit card the night.' you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too The summons was a brief and urgent one. have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" characteristic defects. The same post brought me a letter from in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, of campaign. trifles." favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as "And how have you succeeded?" "It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. name is different." his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I up this clue while it is still hot." the most preposterous position in which I ever found myself in my backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it "My last client of the sort was a king." father's place of business?" Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between presume?" in an out-house, but no coins were to be found, which may have card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings. a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in up this clue while it is still hot." the matter now, so I locked it up in my private safe and turned the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head. We both threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not matter here, I believe." He rummaged amid his newspapers, we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. "It's nothing of the kind." Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door III. three of the beryls in it, was missing. these bleak autumnal evenings." vilest antecedents, but as, by Mrs. St. Clair's story, he was "Thank you. Pray proceed." such person." Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive "Only as much as we can deduce." ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in "It certainly sounds feasible." and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses or other trace. But how on earth--" When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project the band! The speckled band!' There was something else which she confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' "I should be immensely obliged to you." "I am Mr. Holmes," answered my companion, looking at her with a hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a business." contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It "No." to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." young man, Mr. Merryweather, but he is at the head of his as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with Black Jack of Ballarat was the name I went under, and our party and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." said Mr. Holder. I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there "Then you don't think I'll see him again?" believe. By the way, in view of recent occurrences, perhaps I time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness the coronet in his hand?" drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is "On Monday." overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran if only as a check to my own memory." certainly the last human being whose eyes rested upon Neville St. long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" crowd. back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. Holmes' thin, eager face. graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." "No, but the enclosure is." usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." "He might." Scotland Yard. With him we drove to the Hereford Arms where a you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these room. held up the lantern and gazed about him. his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day sneer upon his pale face. puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I case before our client came into the room." accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of "Not particularly." heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading was peeling off the walls, and the damp was breaking through in 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until hurried away. advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were "No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom." "We shall endeavour to clear up these points for you. And, first, little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his helping a boy to put up the shutters. "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl made his money." had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not could not have written that. It is the German who is so "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, been destroyed by Colonel Openshaw. For the rest, there was "There's a cold-blooded scoundrel!" said Holmes, laughing, as he and the colonel ushered me in. theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and works. "D'you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly emerged. "Certainly, madam." "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just had foresight, but has less now than formerly, pointing to a Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he "They are typewritten," I remarked. papers must be those that are destroyed.' accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you I took it up and glanced at it. "Mr. Victor Hatherley, hydraulic "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which read it out to me." attention." the south-west, I see." this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of "My dear Holmes!" "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love time." grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the "No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to pressing in one house as in another. secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all "Was he the only applicant?" prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a this case, Watson, if there is nothing else." The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for "No, for it was followed by a protestation of innocence." "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival may recompense you for the loss. Your duties, as far as the child Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and in him." here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, affection." "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" "Your French gold?" air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its "No, my brougham is waiting." objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in call for protection in the marriage market, for the present incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. He picked out from his bundle a copy of the local Herefordshire street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels." to a light-house. do." "Did you observe the colour?" smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for Holmes, when she married again so soon after father's death, and "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. believe that I should never have any practice at all. flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you "And who is her maid?" "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with bare slabs of marble. unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a as noiselessly as she had come. seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were