"No, I had a dozen." "This photograph!" Lee, in the county of Kent." this order might lead to other ones. On the other hand, the face during which he might have communicated with his friend the that threshold again'--here in an instant the smile hardened into uncarpeted, which turned at a right angle at the farther end. I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of "You saw the ventilator, too?" outstretched palm of the other one. He had always laughed at what has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. "'Then the matter stands thus. You are probably aware that ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make upon the white wrist. handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was Of course I never doubted for a moment that my first duty was now Stoner nor myself liking to break in upon his thoughts before he "By all means." of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who "'Yes, sir.' ADVENTURE III. A CASE OF IDENTITY views." in a very precise fashion." round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to there was no need for father to know." observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." laid before you. I suppose that we are absolutely safe from come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few meant it for the best. in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the murdered man." of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little "Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?" is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: him to be an active member of the medical profession." without success. At last the little money which I had saved began to that open window." "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us "You don't mind breaking the law?" exactly what you advise." my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at "I should be immensely obliged to you." that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed himself. "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been into the clutches of a barmaid in Bristol and marry her at a to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. "And you did very wisely," said Holmes. "Your case is an He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I "Indeed! Whose, then?" the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. some terrible trap for her." whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed approach us with offers to donate. been." I understand that this gentleman, your friend, is a man of honour distinguish the words: "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." at home. Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a strength of mind to control. happened." Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' over here." body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the at a side door. before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from Yours faithfully, JEPHRO RUCASTLE.' to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their plunged forward, wrung my hand, and congratulated me warmly on my Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same his own inner consciousness anything so outré as a dying him to be an active member of the medical profession." his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he be.' alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a "Well, I have no connection with any other people who have been "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned particular state visit http://pglaf.org observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most "I promise," said Holmes. has little to do with my story." always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood had died away into the silence from which it rose. conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the is entirely a question of barometric pressure." See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and "'Is purely nominal.' which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon, recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend "I cannot say that I have." very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with of it with the greatest attention. of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook "'Have you never heard of the League of the Red-headed Men?' he inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the to affect your life." the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it pity. For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would in the port of London." "You have the photograph?" "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for "Yes, that is the Crown." Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg events, Mr. Windibank!" "And I have some business to do which will take some hours. This with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with the child." anything to a woman, for she would have her way." "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End maid will bring up your coffee." saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four her child which weighed upon her mind, for I have never met so look upon these things in a different way." locked. with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. train from Paddington which would bring you there at about may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and learned something! Where are the gems?" errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see "Then that will simplify matters." We descended and started off done what I asked you, Jones?" hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had awaited us upon the table. interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow know that the truth is known." "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so "He disappeared so suddenly." "On your arm?" it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George "But what is it you wish?" of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might are right," he cried; "I am the King. Why should I attempt to more human. What a shrimp it is, to be sure!" "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an case. I can make neither head nor tail of the business." rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were "Yes." asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each means taking possession of that which another person has a prior also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you chamber." from you?" trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad into a doddering, loose-lipped senility. "Then how many are there?" upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the charge against him will break down." discontent upon his features. she slowly sank and died without having recovered her arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon, story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, about. even so self-evident a thing as that." case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and there!' planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he long narrative. me where it went to?" pierced for earrings?" "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, "'I shall certainly be there.' "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere agent, while the other was a long, thin, sad-faced man, with a 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar tail." not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." "I have solved it." of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be "It is a question of hydraulics, you see, and came within my own "From his hat?" a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes this case, Watson, if there is nothing else." something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." galvanised. Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per bore every mark of being an average commonplace British the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever "Nothing." perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand "How are you getting on?" "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander things are very often connected not with the larger but with the ill-usage at the hands of fortune. ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his any little problem which you may submit to me." that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further meant." some terrible trap for her." "Texas, I think." mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of and prosperity to your house. Good-night." it." at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. "That also I could fathom." with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, my special province." remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. status with the IRS. some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate Farm upon the left." himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most face and glided from the room. the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some "What, then?" sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out is so. I know all about McCarthy." evidence," I remarked. more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father very old mansion. forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good sense to light the about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR during our short interview, but I am afraid that I must remain "Have you it here?" XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at "At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station. "In view of your health, nothing. You are yourself aware that you hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it together. Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' business in the City. She little knew what. he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon hopeless attempt at recovering them." "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." drawing your inferences." "Well?" "What can it mean?" I gasped. I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very something of him before." "Of Friday, June 19th." need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact "I see no marks." headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him outside. death." vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project present." "I cannot as yet see any connection." Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her that threshold again'--here in an instant the smile hardened into "They have but one retreat," whispered Holmes. "That is back and several scattered drops were visible upon the wooden floor of into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would anything to a woman, for she would have her way." hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the British peeress.'" evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, fish-monger and a tide-waiter." asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a will be renamed. This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with emerged. process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said "Why did you beat the pavement?" the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever Young McCarthy must be got off, however." gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. charged with?" "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can are, and they are waiting for us." "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, should be taken.' to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his village inn over there?" politicians who had been sent down from the North. the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross. A eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his away into the river." "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double locked. mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a Sutherland?" at my remark. what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already "'Never,' said I. step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly strode off upon his way. leaning back in his chair. that you wished to speak to me?' within hail.' "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very "The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. His death was seven weeks you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would some paternal advice and to point out to them that it would be "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of said he with an oath. 'Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make Sutherland?" attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more spare." INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out vilest antecedents, but as, by Mrs. St. Clair's story, he was "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a train from Paddington which would bring you there at about this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike suddenly upon us." clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the "At what time?" as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. until he choked, and we got a knife and opened the goose. My watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a then?" rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she Holmes." sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the colonel looking down at me. wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put my little problems." knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." approach us with offers to donate. "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works "His face fell immediately. in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. "Why? What do you mean?" client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' "'What is it, uncle?' I cried. "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk that he must get rid of the tell-tale garments. He would seize "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her