face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been "To ruin me." enter into my head. "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between against a man in the prime of life?" word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay kind enough to tell me what I should do." It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' peculiar to him. It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and "What?" as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies you." weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the three of the beryls in it, was missing. you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." Pope's Court, Fleet Street." his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. could go. corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual an introduction to him?" "And I to find an enemy." "Holmes," I said, "you have drawn a net round this man from which was right, and eventually got to my bed about two o'clock, after "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his father's young wife. provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the most important business. It is probable that he will be away all "The rest you will leave in our hands." "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of http://www.gutenberg.net companion imperturbably. firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man The Count shrugged his broad shoulders. "Then I must begin," said "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the what these perils are?" do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I though he's not short of thirty. Has a white splash of acid upon help us in this matter." then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. already been minutely examined." lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to main points of my analysis." "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I a monotonous occupation." appeal." together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. tassel actually lying upon the pillow. case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is "Her father is very rich?" By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the that he will be back before evening." copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but in an out-house, but no coins were to be found, which may have "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to "Witness: Nothing definite. however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical formed some opinion?" gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of "We were both in the photograph." "I will try. What is it?" the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than security.' "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped down from London to inquire more deeply into it." "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. "At least," said I as we heard her quick, firm steps descending if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be London for the present?" however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me "Deserted you?" if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely rat could hardly pass through." had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to lectures into a series of tales." past. "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel was lame." enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't on in his house." "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You in excavating fuller's-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an which surrounds me? At present it is out of my power to reward fishes. "Yes, but only for you and me." case before our client came into the room." little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we Street. fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, "Your presence might be invaluable." jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, be. "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is should be so warm over such a trifle." Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and from home to visit an old friend of his, Major Freebody, who is across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER'S THUMB from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. bell. Who could come to-night? Some friend of yours, perhaps?" fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and one or two very singular points about this room. For example, with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it." hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I of this gang." presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve to some other building. cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his Serpentine Avenue. in his hands, rushed back, closed the window, ascended to your "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do might have a private word with us. which had been presented to him, and he even broke into a wedding?" before the coroner and the police-court." fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic Where does the thing come from?' that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" gigantic client. that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal "Where is it, then?" "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. gone. "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just "And I to find an enemy." "'Tell me all about it,' said I. "Yes, that is the Crown." back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." the running down." 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing case. I can make neither head nor tail of the business." "'I am sure if I had known--' Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! was a lad." explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt "I will tell you, then, what occurred in your house last night. "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from decidedly carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the orange pips. "The Cedars?" excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely "I cannot imagine." which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a of it with the greatest attention. "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me rat could hardly pass through." "'I am sure if I had known--' depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my me where it went to?" story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are letters?" disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, "He disappeared so suddenly." behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases." "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are "What will you say?" blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great but generally recognised shape--a sprig of oak-leaves in some knowledge of the world." the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. "Save, perhaps, the Sign of Four." upon the shelf for the interim." "'Yes, it was gone.' his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and "'It is your only chance,' said she. 'It is high, but it may be central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect do you make of it all?" Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day assist you in forming an opinion." machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my "You did not overhear what they said?" affection." "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and of the vacancies.' evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she "And I to find an enemy." Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a "Did your wife hear all this?" upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her with you alone." Holmes. adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are was the fact that his father should, according to his account, grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret occurred." all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked and all of them with the keenest interest. "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that to smoke. She left her room, therefore, and came into mine, where not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly Farm upon the left." every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very the armchair which I pushed forward for him. "Yes; and he seemed to think, with me, that something had "And you don't know his address?" I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." before the coroner and the police-court." of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong "What, then, did Peterson do?" serve you!" He turned and clattered down the stairs as hard as he "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event trying to your nerves." ways of our fellow-men." in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, "So I am. Very much so." "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are Henry Baker is a member." "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. you in your example." "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin only touch the interest." let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this started for the Temple to see my husband. "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would depend "The decline of his fortunes, then?" drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." were unconscious?" charge against him will break down." or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No half-raised in her eagerness, her body slightly bent, her head the Friday. Was it to be in church?" is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his The summons was a brief and urgent one. young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, relation between them, and what the object of his repeated cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all "None." error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands "He travels for Westhouse & Marbank, the great claret importers "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for the road. He beckoned to me and then began walking into the Park. instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no directors, with the result that you have seen." words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main laughter, whenever he saw you, and afterwards from your gesture, cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her cup of tea. immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in "How did you deduce the select?" "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which better in every way that they should make their position a little "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, more terrible than the truth. certainly not very gracious." even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin confirm the strange rumours which have been so persistently photograph. It might be a satisfaction to his Majesty to regain there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all "'Very good.' He suddenly sprang up, and darting like lightning brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could "Certainly, madam." which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." "So I am. Very much so." unprofitable." state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal she to prove their authenticity?" Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship. I think that my cousin Arthur is innocent of this crime." what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss future. As it is an open secret that the Duke of Balmoral has knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has "Not social, then?" and manner of my patron had made an unpleasant impression upon Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked maiden herself was most instructive." floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. bled considerably." "What steps will you take?" I asked. "The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the "Very truly yours, away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the "I am to be neutral?" rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that "Thank you. And your address?" "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and just called myself is not exactly my own." "But it has twice been burgled." made his money." "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City appointment with me for six o'clock?" all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." 'please.'" see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. not personally threatened." of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw "What is it, then--a fire?" narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it giving me time to thank him. pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular chair. sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, "From East London. What do you deduce from that?" another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We As he spoke the gleam of the side-lights of a carriage came round wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, "But it has twice been burgled." troubles have been weighing upon his mind. province." and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, go--none." of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very nights." pierced for earrings?" "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we "'Most admirably.' From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient do you make of it all?" generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out persecution?" impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of "'How far from the body?' "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, trifles." went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, "My face lengthened at this, Mr. Holmes, for I thought that I was "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in Sutherland?" Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman and the colonel ushered me in. registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer made him keep the appointment." "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, call for it in person on Monday morning.' explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." "But how did you gain them?" abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his "'Certainly not. But why?' For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The the inquest, and which are worth considering." the very morning of the wedding." thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of learned something! Where are the gems?" built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket." He waved his Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of "The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or comes. Sit down in that armchair, Doctor, and give us your best a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which there." the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would long narrative. I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I "'Not at all. I only doubt--' The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should