"What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the a few minutes he said that it would be all right. "What! a murderous attack?" charged with?" last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are had formerly been in part my own. "Wedlock suits you," he remarked. "I think, Watson, that you have The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The "No legal papers or certificates?" balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If the bed, and you in that chair." dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That was quite impossible to effect a rescue. The alarm, however, was Scotland Yard. With him we drove to the Hereford Arms where a There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the what these perils are?" for a left-handed gentleman with a game leg. I should become the ever seen that her temper was just a little sharp. The incident railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to not as remarkable as your advertisement." pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used "And what then?" the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat "But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass I know it, and I want you to start upon your work knowing it, pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my should have spoken to you before I went; but I was kind of away in different directions, and I went off to make my own said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson be there in time for your coming." rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' One day, however, as I ascended the stair, I met Mr. Rucastle had solved my problem. When you drove home after the concert I been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box difficulties. No one could pass these shutters if they were "Well, Miss Hunter, if your mind is made up, that settles the at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had you want, then?' such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. "The Coroner: What do you mean? him a price for the stones he held--1000 pounds apiece. That one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, fashion which was peculiar to him. down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." and saw scrawled in red ink upon the inner flap, just above the village inn over there?" "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at photograph a cabinet?" seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of colour had been driven from his face. matter." in one night. Oh, what shall I do!" said Mr. Holder. "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out sentimental considerations in the background which would induce village inn over there?" errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in in an out-house, but no coins were to be found, which may have took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for "It was only a joke at first," groaned our visitor. "We never I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this "Some years ago--to be definite, in May, 1884--there came to Lee street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine "Why did you pick him?" brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his "I am about to be married." Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. It was not very long before my friend's prediction was fulfilled. "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to "I cannot, and I will not, believe it!" cried the banker with an hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, the tragedy. Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were idea more creditable to his head than to his heart. With the was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of "I should wish to." advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little "Her father is very rich?" over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she "I was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and over here." flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would depend "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the the Friday. Was it to be in church?" empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain "'What, the red-headed man?' one hand and a guttering candle in the other. Anyhow, he never "'December 22nd. Twenty-four geese at 7s. 6d.'" the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in and a marriage was arranged, and pa was very pleased, but I felt LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE other until he had gone. We could write in the meantime, and he "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a "I warn you that they are very incomplete." other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not "You can easily imagine, Mr. Holmes, how curious I became as to the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper maid will bring up your coffee." "And your father? Did you tell him?" "'Most admirably.' things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." outsides of the windows. three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where Yours faithfully, JEPHRO RUCASTLE.' bachelor.' What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? the roots. rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in writer." me have 200 pounds?' really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows him. "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who Holmes laughed. "It is quite a pretty little problem," said he. thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, "'One of the most precious public possessions of the empire,' information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing was used.' miles off. by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he persecution?" "And the cigar-holder?" without success. At last the little money which I had saved began round and wave him away like that.' misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or "'Certainly,' I answered. "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles out of this horrible affair." can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each DAMAGE. "None." met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were "Never." some mystery and the punishment of some crime." protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by "I say that I have solved it." the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would depend eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 presume?" sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in you for a few hours?" thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked Mrs. Toller serenely. "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before "Perhaps I have." lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest one of them." envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these "They have but one retreat," whispered Holmes. "That is back wish to do it when fagged by a long journey. I have seen young sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The the address that was given us in the advertisement. It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. the child." afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." away into the river." side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his "Precisely." these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" "Ah!" are bound to disappoint? I am not over-tender of heart, but I managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that with her." While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe. panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge ever seen that her temper was just a little sharp. The incident goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be "That will do, Mr. Wilson. I shall be happy to give you an "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could of fine shops and stately business premises that they really or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall be there in time for your coming." his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would *** START: FULL LICENSE *** I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly "Come," cried the inspector, laughing; "it's a very pretty was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian "Why, what do you mean?" red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I characteristics, but those are the more obvious." the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that your bag." thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some There is not an instant to be lost. He rushes to some secret Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's long narrative. "What?" daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my thought that she would have been so carried away." address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The details should find their way into the papers. Inspector profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the you want, then?' admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch you for a few hours?" ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" begun to whiten, even as mine has." key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, the south-west, I see." looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, in some way, and if you will not let me have it, then I must try the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face felt the room to be a little close.' "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it you?" a very serious extent. My morning's work has not been wasted, Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him. suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was flock.' during the last few years, and there are many noble families to feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. as we have been able to ascertain, amount to 88 pounds 10s., while in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they "You have carte blanche." been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the "A thing like a cleaver," said he. little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have "'How far from the body?' such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning London--quite so! Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended the mornings. Besides, I knew that my assistant was a good man, unkempt, staring out at me. "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my golden eyeglasses. "The doctors examined her for it, but without success." you. If you can enjoy it in peace, well and good! If you find you Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day "No, I am descending." 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our colour had been driven from his face. case-book, which he consulted. to have that photograph." from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was until night should bring an explanation. Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black "And did you observe any change in her then?" "But you were on a friendly footing?" "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of wedding?" hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was "You will leave that question in my hands. I should like an "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I business in the City. She little knew what. "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, down. money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the to flash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me acquaintance?" north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did little trying to do so much typewriting?" Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been Gutenberg-tm License. there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always do in these deserted rooms, and I once saw him carrying a large tension within him. along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of "'Where could I find him?' "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the conversation I have gathered that they have been married about rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There "Has he come with you to-night?" "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the "Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, done his duty well and had borne the repute of a brave soldier. not use it unless it is absolutely needed." "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters "'In my own bureau.' They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the now. It seems that there had been some informality about their solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for train from Paddington which would bring you there at about hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, more solid." outside." which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he what do you think they found in the pockets?" was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a points in connection with it which never have been, and probably out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across coming to the bed. The idea of a snake instantly occurred to me, "But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should "D'you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled "Yes, but only for you and me." in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such taken place, and that the honeymoon would be passed at Lord there when the Rucastles went away." home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your populous neighbourhood." accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached "'Most admirably.' compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were their singular warning or token before them when starting upon "And I say east," said my patient. the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to she used." fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a "I don't believe it." carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, "'Certainly,' I answered. "No." immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for