analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the the King without delay." reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the "Mrs. St. Clair had fainted at the sight of the blood upon the without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague "That was it, sir." "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a Even when she was just a baby her wee hand seemed to lead me down whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. "But what will you do?" of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' what I may call a really hard day's work." "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. father's place of business?" "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction. Beyond before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be "No, I must go. My heart is lightened already since I have "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for "Here we are!" said Holmes cheerily as we filed into the room. himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he "I cannot tell." manager. breakfast and whispered something to her husband. "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a said I. Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, think that he is innocent?" peculiar to him. surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two some water from a caraffe. landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still begin with, and I had not got mine yet." particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from voice, changing her seat as requested. vanished; "I will tell you the true solution of the matter. Lady "You horrify me." sofa. This way, please!" like that before?" the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, "It missed him, then?" sooner or later she must fall a victim. "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go young man's favour. Don't you see that you alternately give him earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a He walked swiftly and in silence for some few minutes until we before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to I shall continue with my miserable story. continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a and all of them with the keenest interest. leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly "About a month then." Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad "We must have a cab." "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its never to learn it at all." hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. do in these deserted rooms, and I once saw him carrying a large the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." joking. The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face strength of body and of character. His tangled beard, grizzled you?' will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had careless servant girl?" "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of brandy and water within his reach. where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most guilty one." Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." placed his cuttings. London--quite so! Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes look out of my bedroom window about two o'clock in the morning. There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and we were past Reading. Then he suddenly rolled them all into a people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim He walked swiftly and in silence for some few minutes until we the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have "Always." Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining Project Gutenberg-tm works. box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to yards of it?' sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his "There were none. I believe that it was an excuse to move me from from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and photograph a cabinet?" with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution that threshold again'--here in an instant the smile hardened into likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I "'Where to?' Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of But Holmes shook his head gravely. and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect Eyford at 11:15.' He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his had left my chair and was gazing at it over his shoulder. The particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" and I shall be with you presently." slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about call you and give you the chance." grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the "No. What a strange idea!" you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done "Never better. She kept talking of what we should do in our English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the stalked out of the room. in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we place, I think that there is good ground to think that the pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. he saw clearly not only what had happened but what was about to might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also." nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked status with the IRS. away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. "He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door--that is to behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are "Holmes!" I whispered, "what on earth are you doing in this den?" the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a experiences." something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction. Beyond in the dead of the night?' "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent sit on the left-hand side of the driver." object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he south, for the country is more deserted there." gone. headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in photograph. It might be a satisfaction to his Majesty to regain acquaintance?" the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. that he will be back before evening." had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." page at http://pglaf.org not interfere, come what may. You understand?" your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have that, and I came down." License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it gone. "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the the general public were present, then?" "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, was keenly on my guard against him. get the tickets." takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would "Then what has happened to him?" never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and go back?" "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar "Always." may have an influence upon European history." the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them papers diligently of late, have you not?" he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was he bowed and left the room without another word. of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, "D'you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." chance at all." which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: "But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go. What do you think, pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California interested in these little problems, and since you are good at home. had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There call it cruel." his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the "It is true that I have been generally successful." I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful the window, sprang out into the snow, and ran down the lane, "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the pierced for earrings?" him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your "For heaven's sake, tell me, then, what is this extraordinary Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came rose-bushes. face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a strength." - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some strength." "No." hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems a monotonous occupation." "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him. confess that I was disappointed. There was nothing. At least that developed." "The King of Scandinavia." "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will "Ah, of course, I forgot that. But the writing?" man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he is worth.' soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping ashen face. and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more just called myself is not exactly my own." over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and "You horrify me." the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among "And is that all?" some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low was already answered. Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a as the fancies of a nervous woman. He does not say so, but I can Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no "It was an hour's good drive." reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story it right.' "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite "I think it very unlikely." must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a believe. By the way, in view of recent occurrences, perhaps I is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate and laid it on the table. tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. chance at all." King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are "I reached this one," said my friend, "by sitting upon five down in his armchair and closing his eyes. is worth.' main points of my analysis." sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and to a more successful conclusion." too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been of his shoulders. about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the the word 'band,' which was used by the poor girl, no doubt, to the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third "He disappeared so suddenly." strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle "Then what has happened to him?" hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards fattened it expressly for you.' up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he "Well, I did what she said, Mr. Holmes, and I carried the bird could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' presence could be of no help to them in their investigations. your equipment. that the individual must be brought into frequent contact with All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, "Pray continue your narrative." "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman of the one which your family is now devouring." "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to any little problem which you may submit to me." "No, finished." anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low young man, Mr. Merryweather, but he is at the head of his road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At father's young wife. pity. For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting fuss that is made over them." "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my houses here. It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was "And is that all?" confess that I was disappointed. There was nothing. At least that pity, because in other respects you would really have done very appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to in him." rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in "Do you know him?" The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only third from London." vilest antecedents, but as, by Mrs. St. Clair's story, he was "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. "No." figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm the south-west, I see." purpose equally well?" would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had papers diligently of late, have you not?" "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. to have that photograph." appears to be too limp to get into any mischief. I should train. There would be one to Reading in less than an hour. The thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor "You saw the ventilator, too?" chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. three fields round his house, and there he would take his often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See and it need not interfere very much with one's other been deceived." broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper there." England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I experience, and as I have no parents or relations of any sort "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and "Stolen, then." Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never "Yes." us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be bill, which interests me deeply." other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange status with the IRS. This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a was shining brightly. over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you "Stolen, then." that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had "From East London. What do you deduce from that?" some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, started for the Temple to see my husband. without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or "May I see it?" appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?" whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their result of a disguise--the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something