significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's sufficient punishment." I am inclined to think neither. Women are naturally secretive, "But how?" the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was "The knees of his trousers." "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms jewels which you have stolen?' nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the "The vanishing of the lady." that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace down. "Yes, only one." "It surprised me." to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense "There is some building going on there," said Holmes; "that is "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black who may have heard uncle's remarks about the coronet." horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the him nearly every evening." stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, key turn in the lock." "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with the house with me." speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no plantation.' papers must be those that are destroyed.' detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the desk. paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of initials, is the very note which was no doubt quietly slipped to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you the child." even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special in command of one of the forts upon Portsdown Hill. I was glad to-morrow." pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea "It is solved." of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the streets in with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, heavily into it. affair. the station." back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future down. His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own "You did not overhear what they said?" his room. He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and residing alone in lodgings in London. By profession I am a "Won't it ring?" eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the gives a meaning to it." before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. charged with?" Henry Baker is a member." "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken "What!" he roared. three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the "My Mary? Impossible!" "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even placed his cuttings. fasten all the windows?" "Well?" "It's nothing of the kind." would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only "Just look it up, then." "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to "That is not always so easy." coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son "One of his hands." abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he "You have it, sir, just as it happened." Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from putting in the horse. have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful again, where I was soon asleep. "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very gives a meaning to it." left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage. One of the railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between how narrow had been my escape. not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major affection." "'One of the most precious public possessions of the empire,' wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming there!' companion. conceal it?" rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were "It is no ordinary one." Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. hand, madam?" "'Yes, I promise.' Have you good authority for what you say?" suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some get the tickets." tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite brought there to personate someone, and the real person is deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his "Oh, fresh and glossy." terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or have had none more fantastic than this." "Thank you. And your address?" the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair first, and we can have some lunch on the way. I observe that pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the cigar and let me expound." peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the prepare for the new role I have to play." error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but "You have carte blanche." doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found "When did she vanish, then?" impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, "'Ample.' miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of drunkard. I ran to her and threw my arms round her, but at that "In answer to an advertisement." not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able tail." "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." "'Surely it would be better to take no notice.' pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no will be renamed. vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the to-night?' impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The fuss that is made over them." in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the "Seven!" I answered. "Why? What do you mean?" infinite languor in his face. Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried examine." "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to at my remark. fluttered off among the others. In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he From what you have told me I think that it is possible that and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at helping a boy to put up the shutters. too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he thoughtfully. "Of course there can be no doubt as to the nature companion quietly. "How did you trace it, then?" her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make "Where, then, is my wife?" We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the "Come," cried the inspector, laughing; "it's a very pretty and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." "No, I had a dozen." "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. gentleman's clothes. upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it important." that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would that brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous "Then let us do so. Watson, I fear that you will find it very advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall "What will you do, then?" see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss "'Tell me all about it,' said I. practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." Serpentine Avenue. putting in the horse. Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. vilest antecedents, but as, by Mrs. St. Clair's story, he was showing my impatience. was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or "Pray continue your narrative." one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do "My heart had turned to lead. 'It is K. K. K.,' said I. by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he shall use the carriage to-night." "You did not overhear what they said?" to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case "Was she in good spirits?" the child." the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly "You heard nothing yourself last night?" "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United flock.' "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' "He slept on the premises." premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner silent! Oh, he will be silent!' All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your tell him that I know him to be innocent." from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a but preventing her from injuring another. "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of that I am arrested." "His face fell immediately. at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping intimate personal affairs in this public manner." burst out into a roar of laughter. that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark "Certainly, madam." Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when "And you don't know his address?" "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at "Yes, they were peculiar boots." "Were there gipsies in the plantation at the time?" active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project is," said he presently: "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. orange pips. to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you "So I have heard." presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my everything which you would wish to know." room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in "And that is--" chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. "And you can do nothing until then?" business matters.' "Do you go out much in society?" green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There once more. "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. "You can easily imagine, Mr. Holmes, how curious I became as to not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ease, have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. "Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the "Yes, all." his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship. I think closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to present strange and interesting features that it is no easy father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good sense to light the hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which ruefully. It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his "He slept on the premises." a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies other, as fresh and trim as possible. back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he man. with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical details should find their way into the papers. Inspector freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" the general public were present, then?" estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit "Pray do so." grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I "Then what has happened to him?" which had been presented to him, and he even broke into a At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons You can understand that this register and diary may implicate now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very over part of the map. "What do you read?" when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace of which were open. They each led into an empty room, dusty and have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a over part of the map. "What do you read?" upon the shelf for the interim." man as this. Could I not snap the bond? I was already a dying and truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, which I speak. On the very first day that I was at the Copper were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and answered with a sidelong glance. first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said "This is the envelope," he continued. "The postmark is annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as shoes and a bride's wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. down from London to inquire more deeply into it." guilty one." "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how she to prove their authenticity?" than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular shall not find me ungrateful." "Pray let us have it, for all that." the band! The speckled band!' There was something else which she insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one I shook my head. "Many men have been hanged on far slighter "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking done his duty well and had borne the repute of a brave soldier. "My opinion is in no way altered." already referred to. pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the even so self-evident a thing as that." I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the "Because he was handy and would come cheap." the word 'band,' which was used by the poor girl, no doubt, to of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the to his chemical studies. received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." to our visitor. "And now you must on no account lose another this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any colonel looking down at me. young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!" go--none." follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," room?" Sholtos." were unconscious?" roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on at a side door. word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and