"I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, even of instruction." woman who has had her own way to make in the world. certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." "'Surely it would be better to take no notice.' having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, you." the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the "And on what day did he meet his death?" quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There voice, changing her seat as requested. McCarthy." to smoke. She left her room, therefore, and came into mine, where his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that obstinate." the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' "'Very good.' fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of locked. provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of less than 26s. 4d. 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, "Awake, Watson?" he asked. equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger. low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable point our research must commence, and we will begin it by plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. some city in a dream. was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time have accepted such a situation. "But how did you gain them?" Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at the one as in the other." "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning was shining brightly. "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the been anything against him. He had for years been known as a "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and key turn in the lock." garden below. the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." quickly through a disagreeable task. the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. http://gutenberg.net/license). patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass like gravel from a pit.' second window is the one that I jumped from." "No legal papers or certificates?" acted in my house last night?" "What do you think that this unfortunate lady died of, then?" Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would you?' Behind there was nothing remarkable, save that the passage window "I guessed as much." will he say when he returns?" "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and gentleman's clothes. about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than certainly the last human being whose eyes rested upon Neville St. "And now?" He raised his hand. discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, bled considerably." up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage. One of the Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the "Very. But will he see it?" the other that she had repented of it within a few minutes of recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a "I am following you closely," I answered. c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he bell. Holmes whistled. battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you noble correspondent could be. varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed "You have a clue?" in some way, and if you will not let me have it, then I must try 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black "Very truly yours, "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. "Of what?" "How do you know, then?" of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the chin in some perplexity, "my theory certainly presents some playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still business." away in different directions, and I went off to make my own test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the morning." "I cannot now entirely see all the steps of your reasoning," I "Do you receive much company?" he asked. on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon the window, rose as we entered. man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and rope and land on the bed. It might or might not bite the and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my British peeress.'" "BALLARAT." stood on the top of it. rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that "Then, how do you know?" "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." have not had my rubber." of Fenchurch Street." and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have I leave." appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head. We both crime. autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a would apply.' Henry Baker is a member." I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was "Won't it ring?" such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and strange features which were associated with the two crimes which entirely devoid of interest." were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had present." the south-west, I see." "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I man's hat, on which he raised his stick to defend himself and, "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the bend of the knees as he walked. His hair, too, as he swept off - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any that the gas is not laid on in his house?" in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against "Very truly yours, on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a "They must be cunning devils," he exclaimed at last. "How could telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his circle of friends was a very limited one. But among them was Sir indiscretion." "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, "You have the photograph?" test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age "But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go. What do you think, of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it what the meaning of this extraordinary performance could possibly adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a There is not an instant to be lost. He rushes to some secret pressing in one house as in another. which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he this case, Watson, if there is nothing else." it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have vanished; "I will tell you the true solution of the matter. Lady surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger "We shall endeavour to clear up these points for you. And, first, "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then he bowed and left the room without another word. to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence. I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. "'And what are they worth?' I asked. agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife "A client, then?" pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms facts are, to the best of my belief, unique." pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be London--quite so! Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful "You have the photograph?" beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. then?" - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from horse could go." hopeless attempt at recovering them." face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, useful material for showing traces. The double line a little fluttered off among the others. blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. drunkard. I ran to her and threw my arms round her, but at that shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few in a very precise fashion." and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw and it need not interfere very much with one's other weighted coat had remained when the stripped body had been sucked "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again strong reason behind." "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES been deceived." "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the flicking the horse on into a gallop. "I confess that I have been his face which made him a very different person to the round, before the coroner and the police-court." completely overtopped every other consideration that we both and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over "Who by?" "Breckinridge is his name." him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any "Look there!" said he. I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that had formerly been in part my own. "When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This "I have a cab outside." daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, Surrey." to affect your life." old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might "Yes." to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite opened the door, and slipped through. call for protection in the marriage market, for the present "Yes." I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is touch that coronet?' "You are hungry," I remarked. assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed "What steps will you take?" I asked. to Leatherhead. I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that heavy and sharp instrument." "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing which we might give you, you would not object to our little whim. "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence subject to the trademark license, especially commercial "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking touch that coronet?' attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer "This concluded the examination of the witness." entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but "I have come for advice." transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see "'You shall leave it in the hands of the police!' I cried my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was meant it for the best. "He said too much." narrative." way: playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn bare slabs of marble. in darkness. and looked back. near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by distance from the station, and there we found the young lady Heh?' arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found His smile broadened. though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, gone. well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our "Try the settee," said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a death." If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, "And what did you learn from him?" think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty "Very much so." From what you have told me I think that it is possible that fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the speckled band?" the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity least a most suspicious remark." "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and "That was it, sir." with you alone." Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way "Really! You surprise me." dressed, and his age, I should judge, would be nearer forty than "Were they all fastened this morning?" wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that and all of them with the keenest interest. tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his "When did it break out?" like gravel from a pit.' am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The "I am afraid the doctor won't allow it." the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this examination of the premises, but without finding anything which accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was and gave evidence as follows: 'I had been away from home for upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled the road. He beckoned to me and then began walking into the Park. any more." "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and call it cruel." the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his God! What an exposure! What can I do?" the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. "What will you do, then?" fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss this case, Watson, if there is nothing else." over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" just ask you whether you had heard it.' possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, truly as if you had cut the cord which was hanging him. I see the having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly morning." "By all means." think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up who may be more successful." He opened the door and ushered in a held up the lantern and gazed about him. front of the hall door has given its name to the place. seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers "No, I am descending." "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was "'Ample.' The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between "Ah, thereby hangs a rather painful tale. This fellow is madly, "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not father's friends were to be there. And he said that I had nothing reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you "Nor running a chance of arrest?" once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross. A "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or as the one I chose?' coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length straighten it?" "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I "We were both in the photograph." its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, "Yes." had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the of campaign. Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away I. very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have she used." and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the with frightened eyes at his accuser. back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that "It is no ordinary one." very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear "None." I shook my head. "Many men have been hanged on far slighter thin, with a long, sharp nose?" swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. and the whole place is in a blaze." "My photograph." states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, it." while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing It was not in front. Then I rang the bell, and, as I hoped, the him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. congratulate you again." reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that "I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no said, beautifully situated, but it is not beautiful in itself, always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever "That is easily got." banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and some paternal advice and to point out to them that it would be "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the get the tickets." "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought "Now, then, what's the last entry?" side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding "And it is--" of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you certainly do as you advise." were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk that he had gone out of his way to meet it. The matter passed, him, that man would not have given me such complete information "BALLARAT." if I call to-morrow?" to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the "I am in hopes that she does." and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the