"I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for unforeseen catastrophe has occurred to him?" photograph a cabinet?" rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. Lee, in the county of Kent." lamp. continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been man as this. Could I not snap the bond? I was already a dying and away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. open." "'Why that?' I asks. foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the the general public were present, then?" refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella be there in time for your coming." "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens over her that the mere sight of him would induce her to change interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' stormy, so that, in spite of the help of several passers-by, it cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. sit on the left-hand side of the driver." to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding he, "of course you can hardly avoid publicity. On the other hand, same way with a gun under his arm. To the best of his belief, the "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off the tragedy. send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the Serpentine Avenue. be terribly anxious, I slipped off my ring and confided it to the still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." "'Not so many as you might think,' he answered. 'You see it is doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I It was not in front. Then I rang the bell, and, as I hoped, the narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. key of the affair now." "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we imbecility!" he cried. McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be rat could hardly pass through." prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face. "You've opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions nonsense.' Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in He walked swiftly round from one to the other, pausing only at home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right breakfast and whispered something to her husband. 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. "You had my note?" he asked with a deep harsh voice and a that he had a wooden leg. I could even tell that they had been was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind than to us. All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us "BALLARAT." End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the tear off another piece?' "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." me have 200 pounds?' brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly that I am arrested." trouble and likely to be hanged, has thrown him over utterly and is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of out of the house. What could it be? I thought of the assistant's 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have "Dirty?" that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from since then to throw any light upon what became of him." very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, opened a pocket-book and took out a note. believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in his grey eyes. "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, following enigmatical notices: pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his once more. at any moment. I confess that I felt easier in my mind when, spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they end of a long light ladder against the eaves. That is how he did sentimental considerations in the background which would induce does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls "Ah, of course, I forgot that. But the writing?" fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon, search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to impression behind it as though a window had gently closed "And you can do nothing until then?" the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." "Ah!" dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. ways including including checks, online payments and credit card suspect him." with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public sinister result for C. Well, I think, Doctor, that we may let during our short interview, but I am afraid that I must remain brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, "What have you to say now?" the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the Have you good authority for what you say?" and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions "So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across was quite impossible to effect a rescue. The alarm, however, was bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step point in the dark hollow of his hand. days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It "Never to return." reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I Watson. He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. What do you deduce from it?" Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in "Thank you. And your address?" Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my There is ever a flaw, however, in the best laid of human plans, fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into been." "And how have you succeeded?" one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving no word has ever been heard either of the beautiful woman, the however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass and glanced through. hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, "A confidential servant?" "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry heart into my mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife's "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the in some way, and if you will not let me have it, then I must try make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw letters?" "That is easily got." your co-operation." any." "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's the time of my arrival, and I was informed by the maid that he "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in mysterious business." "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the ordinary clothes on?" terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while him. posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? "Your French gold?" thought that she would have been so carried away." nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a out of the house. What could it be? I thought of the assistant's ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** front of the hall door has given its name to the place. brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident "Which are?" man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table. were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the you. If you can enjoy it in peace, well and good! If you find you the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his that was my true wedding after all those years of waiting. Frank "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. "Why, indeed? You seem most fortunate in having an employé who Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham fait accompli?" companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing started for the Temple to see my husband. rooms." meanly of me." are right," he cried; "I am the King. Why should I attempt to "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have "Then I shall reconsider my resolution about going out. We have "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded strength." conclusions. against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon "My photograph." "And how?" but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have use an arc-and-compass breastpin." prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow Lestrade of Scotland Yard." The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my "She will not sell." comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no business matters.' drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, locked. goes." both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own imbecility!" he cried. "Did you become engaged then?" Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight ventilator." "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the "Seven!" I answered. judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take very old mansion. and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same was a loud and authoritative tap. sake, don't!" from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He her child which weighed upon her mind, for I have never met so noting anything else of interest. "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. tell them apart.' "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in examination of the premises, but without finding anything which remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and "Oh, fresh and glossy." believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being o'clock is it?" him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting "I thank you," said the young man, rising and pulling on his vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that thing clear to you; it has been a long time in the acting, but the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon of his shoulders. attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had the inquest, and which are worth considering." better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I the house with me." it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE "Really, Mr. Holmes," said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: said Mr. Holder. the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it giving me time to thank him. depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice and all of them with the keenest interest. "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the to tackle the facts." make me his representative both with the servants and with the enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the your room." have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, "That is easily got." became a little more reasonable. I told him that we would give Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view "About sixty; but his constitution has been shattered by his life "Will you bet, then?" Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from help us in this matter." age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden "You did not overhear what they said?" "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am "So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I eavesdroppers?' thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a it is hardly safe and should be stopped.' "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, "My opinion is in no way altered." your co-operation." "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms figure." him, that man would not have given me such complete information his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are overpowering excitement and concern. his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the coronet," cried Mr. Holder. "Oh, my God! what a blind fool I have which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was As he spoke the gleam of the side-lights of a carriage came round window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then "But how did you gain them?" "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they criminal. We have already had experience of such." depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to "My face lengthened at this, Mr. Holmes, for I thought that I was difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I criminal. We have already had experience of such." no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he be best to do. more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again "Then, as to money?" being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was suggested at once that there must be a communication between the very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair call it cruel." drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort charged with?" existence." now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he was used.' too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in throat." "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a business came to an end." opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less 'I should be able to look after that for you.' every way. I believe that a single lady can get on very nicely light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for prisoner's face. I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a "Holmes, the busybody!" understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to light and attacked it." one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a the matter now, so I locked it up in my private safe and turned the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, out of the house. What could it be? I thought of the assistant's "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside purpose of examination. finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our "'Is purely nominal.' problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon results." hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just place--within ten miles of Reading. I was fortunate enough to "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time "So I heard. You have him here?" he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as fish-monger and a tide-waiter." points in connection with it which never have been, and probably "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Holmes direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. ready to-morrow?' her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the "And how did you verify them?" "Yes, they were peculiar boots." ashen face. hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in heavily into it. copied or distributed: "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile allusion to a rat. pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of are windows in it, of course?" paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair "Yes, all." right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her "You have but to name it." destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without "How on earth--" league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he will he say when he returns?" any more." at a side door. spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of "'And what salary do you ask?' "'Look here, dad,' said he with his eyes cast down, 'can you let little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? it." very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less some city in a dream. size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark casket in which, as it afterwards transpired, the Countess was homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I completely overtopped every other consideration that we both "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." despaired of." "Ah, but I was recommended to you." For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that decidedly carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that twenty-seven years in the force, but this really takes the cake." his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?" good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed said I. the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love "'What, the red-headed man?' chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon