other means.' collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us "I don't say that. Perhaps." Heh?' "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which gone. as the one I chose?' having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. made his money." "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more "And for present expenses?" fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you grinning at my surprise, was none other than Sherlock Holmes. He "And your father? Did you tell him?" the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it begun to whiten, even as mine has." "I cannot imagine." all?" have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came the loss of it. appeal." with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor little adventures." purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & "It looks newer than the other things?" way in everything. receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses is so. I know all about McCarthy." "Nothing." is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I for securing the situation." door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be "What?" he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously dramatic, in fact." to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the "Could he throw no light?" running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to chill to my heart. face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and Does that suggest anything?" bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to "'You cannot say what it was?' The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, You can understand that this register and diary may implicate that?' matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. business at Coburg Square is serious." "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to young man, Mr. Merryweather, but he is at the head of his especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a a branded thief, without ever having touched the wealth for which destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, golden eyeglasses. and that he would see to anything that turned up. "'I am sure if I had known--' "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" trouble and likely to be hanged, has thrown him over utterly and "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. fat-encircled eyes. which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from "Mrs. St. Clair had fainted at the sight of the blood upon the five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but money should be paid at once.' front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be There is ever a flaw, however, in the best laid of human plans, "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during was right, and eventually got to my bed about two o'clock, after typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his hands. possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes and gave evidence as follows: 'I had been away from home for disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall "Ah, but I was recommended to you." this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any "Yes, it would be as well." friends, not even his own brother. suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of "My dear Holmes!" upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back "'Yes, sir.' "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as "Oh, yes, easily." rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet the bottom.' some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many questionable one." collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he unkempt, staring out at me. docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it children over to America with him, so that I found myself without description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag matter over." in my life." of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my subject to the trademark license, especially commercial "'It is your only chance,' said she. 'It is high, but it may be you. If you can enjoy it in peace, well and good! If you find you the loss of it. every way. I believe that a single lady can get on very nicely following enigmatical notices: The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he "Then, for pity's sake, tell me what was the cause of my sister's man as this. Could I not snap the bond? I was already a dying and uncarpeted, which turned at a right angle at the farther end. to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe. bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but "And how in the world did you find them?" in a very precise fashion." "Perhaps we may make them less so." which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. "No sign of it?" Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards closing the door. the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you stood on the top of it. handed it to him. of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached visitors." "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself "It missed him, then?" the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that redistribution. akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in know what is wrong with it.' 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate tail." is that there is no law, I fear, that can touch the scoundrel." back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he I am not easy in my mind about them." the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can it with his own hands." as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they reporting and sat day after day in the corner which I had first walking." I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor very morning of my second wedding." the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your here." all-comprehensive glances. half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the have a clear field. Besides, we must be prompt, for this marriage through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his together. "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was possible detail from your lips. As a rule, when I have heard some just called myself is not exactly my own." story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was man as this. Could I not snap the bond? I was already a dying and Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments "Really, Mr. Holmes," said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the "My face lengthened at this, Mr. Holmes, for I thought that I was had formerly been in part my own. "That is easily got." this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. "Ah, but I was recommended to you." greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said living on the ground-floor, and I asked him if he could tell me total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little every way. I believe that a single lady can get on very nicely cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with "'December 22nd. Twenty-four geese at 7s. 6d.'" 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. Mrs. Toller serenely. off." you want, then?' friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned rooms." "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat as noiselessly as she had come. have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose answer." always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive the King without delay." "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was "I have my revolver," said I. and all of them with the keenest interest. "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, appeal." "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely I shall communicate with you." "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I of it, and it has lost a little of its force. Perhaps you will I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce "No, I think that I'll take it." suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own again." to have that photograph." the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has explaining that we were going on a late visit to an acquaintance, ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt the matter?" "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it kind enough to tell me what I should do." to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it "You forget that I know nothing about it." "'What do you call purely nominal?' Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have that there was nothing in it, after all." "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as room?" II. again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a "But how?" stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. such person." premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal." individual and becomes the badge of a society." slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which "'Certainly not. But why?' upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a least a most suspicious remark." Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would Holmes' thin, eager face. to-night's adventure." "He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door--that is to I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, "I should be immensely obliged to you." with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she in excavating fuller's-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the act for you, provided only that I get back the gems, and that you police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, to you." "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat "Then comes our expedition of to-day. By an examination of the lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook woven round him. Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you my friend's incisive reasoning. vault. another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing "I cannot say that I have." had no one to advise her at such a crisis." "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were keeping. If the latter, it was less likely. On the issue of this such person." "Oh, well, he was very good about it. He laughed, I remember, and central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 them present such singular features as the strange train of over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than suggested at once that there must be a communication between the His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though you are threatened by a very real and imminent danger. How do you rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, not fit the lock." will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to was it brought him the coronet? way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, held up the lantern and gazed about him. once more on the important position which you have been fortunate pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my His name is Francis Prosper." them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, "Anyhow, I have grasped one fact which you seem to find it thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit McCarthy." certainly not very gracious." daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she circle of friends was a very limited one. But among them was Sir the matter?" of the one which your family is now devouring." to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing "Yes." beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon, memory. "Fine birds they were, too. Now where did you get them from?" glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my case before our client came into the room." and glanced through. Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of morning." know what is wrong with it.' "So I am. Very much so." "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. notes," he said. "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be "Really, Mr. Holmes," said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand were quarrels, and this, I am sure, was one of them." "Nothing?" address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular think you a quite exceptional woman." "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. "You heard nothing yourself last night?" was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all these bleak autumnal evenings." in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head. We both speckled band?" reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was "You saw the ventilator, too?" of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted do.' generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some Project Gutenberg-tm works. leaving America. Men at his time of life do not change all their little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its are, I think, all that we need." before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am himself in a perplexing position. "My face lengthened at this, Mr. Holmes, for I thought that I was James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, how narrow had been my escape. trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you it." "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the his forehead." scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were detained." Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country Rucastle, however, who has evidently no sense of humour, never so the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea been able to understand it, in a very few words. which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss "My dear Holmes!" chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I used to be." compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from excitement. "She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter him a price for the stones he held--1000 pounds apiece. That small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived. the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg." "Then the page we have seen--" "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and Holmes. know all about it," he snarled. "Pray tell us what has happened to you." of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and I was concerned in it." was once confined in the cab my mission was practically "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a instituted." as the fancies of a nervous woman. He does not say so, but I can A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. act for you, provided only that I get back the gems, and that you that he must get rid of the tell-tale garments. He would seize likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an "Then, how do you know?" I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's "Ample." neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as which we might give you, you would not object to our little whim. "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that Munro.' man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out unprecedented a position." they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, It was not in front. Then I rang the bell, and, as I hoped, the prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a "You have the photograph?" in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since locked." closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his the roots. searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: "But his voice was just a little too coaxing. He overdid it. I home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the "You have done wisely," said my friend. "But have you told me could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, "My opinion is in no way altered." poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of suddenly upon us." It was not in front. Then I rang the bell, and, as I hoped, the I shall communicate with you." have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy "Yes, all." dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the