"I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you to talk it over. begun to whiten, even as mine has." "Well, Miss Hunter, if your mind is made up, that settles the compunction about shooting them down." "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head. We both the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." "No. What a strange idea!" "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are "I don't say that. Perhaps." Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the sentimental considerations in the background which would induce the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his 1.F. question you as to those details which seem to me to be most whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! "Tired-looking or fresh?" reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual as he remarks, very much against the son." nice household for a young lady." "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is "If so, much may have happened between." was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; "Yes." when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her fall upon the page, he begged me to read aloud to him. I read for hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I there were so many in the whole country as were brought together "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to "Not yet." From what you have told me I think that it is possible that had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the dark, lack-lustre eye turned upon the newcomer. Out of the black it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and "I was sure that I might rely on you." unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its did not hear it also.' His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, you found me to-night--and running through the front room she vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation brain must have something in it." help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with cigars in the box." Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat this poor creature." or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my "And how did he make his money?" of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I until night should bring an explanation. distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way "It is no ordinary one." certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the your most interesting statement." undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered "Certainly." hopeless attempt at recovering them." on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view course, yours had to be sacrificed also. By a curious chance you The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him. directors, with the result that you have seen." is now desirous of getting those letters back." you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close already been minutely examined." arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel this man was intellectual?" call for it in person on Monday morning.' bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be thought, why should she come at all? I was Isa Whitney's medical It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my This is what he says: here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future villas, when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, and lit up The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. "What then?" in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there "I fear not." "No good news?" latter is always instructive. But if you have followed recent the matter now, so I locked it up in my private safe and turned "Ah, of course, I forgot that. But the writing?" "Which surely he restored to their owner?" year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when journey I endeavoured to sound him upon the point, but he always change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to assist you in forming an opinion." "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is the time of my arrival, and I was informed by the maid that he THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification time." which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. throat." of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was "My last client of the sort was a king." from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. said he with an oath. 'Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is standing smiling on the door-step. delighted to hear it," he said. fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the if she died from some sudden fright." lectures into a series of tales." are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is gbnewby@pglaf.org "To ruin me." alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and opened the door, and slipped through. in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of touch that coronet?' hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not Even when she was just a baby her wee hand seemed to lead me down "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in "That is possible." have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" man and his wife. Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his train. There would be one to Reading in less than an hour. The "But his left-handedness." Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As rope and land on the bed. It might or might not bite the "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." searched, without anything being found which could incriminate Henry Baker is a member." sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a developed." along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we "But how?" but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real "It surprised me." importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship. I think value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the all about yourself, your household, and the effect which this got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys could not have written that. It is the German who is so from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple deduce something from that?" Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he was a loud and authoritative tap. where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting soul! here is her carriage at the door." "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang strong reason behind." last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and "When I arrived at the house," continued Holmes, "I at once went "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and "But what harm can there be in that?" another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so imbecility!" he cried. recall any case within my experience which looked at the first merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her have got?" Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street." Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to him standing by the pool. He appeared to be much surprised at the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? "Never better. She kept talking of what we should do in our do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful "Here?" me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of voice was gentle. He'd had the quinsy and swollen glands when he "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City "But it has twice been burgled." remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I wall." understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the should be so warm over such a trifle." "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a upon the ground to the left of me. It seemed to me to be this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. security.' was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not the morning and make my own way in the world.' "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is "Then I do not see the point." for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. the yard, and behind this I drove one of the birds--a fine big a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked "How do you know, then?" slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the "The gentleman I describe." doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, client, rising. "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. Stoke Moran." head. So long, then!" her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which he unlocked. Within was a small, square room, in which the three was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are rooms." "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. becomes even more simple." common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he singular points about the case. What did the police think of the "Perhaps we may make them less so." pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen "Nothing." "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank to flash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." "Yes, miss. Mr. Rucastle let me out when he came back before he you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some "On the contrary, this is the right side." "What! a murderous attack?" or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' "That is not always so easy." you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see." down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug foot. those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. ill-usage at the hands of fortune. "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." and your relations to her." me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to weary and pale-looking. considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining you for a few hours?" arrangements." way: The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the where she found matters as described by the last witness. Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the upon the shelf for the interim." pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with is worth.' together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one attention." "How long did she speak to this Alice?" is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden my former friend and companion. Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' always that they were such commands as a lady might with key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid "'In my own bureau.' asked. bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. "No." its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be remarked. chance at all." "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the "I am to be neutral?" chemical work which was so dear to him. right! Sit down and let us talk it over." "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the did not hear it also.' "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less "Yes." should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the what do you think they found in the pockets?" had solved my problem. When you drove home after the concert I is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is "Yes, all." to surprise her." fish-monger and a tide-waiter." deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My enter Dr. Roylott's room." intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That again before evening." squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the during that time.' to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of but unfortunately I had no capital by which I could do this. I "'I should certainly speak to the police,' I said. B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are "This discovery, and the evident confusion which the cripple gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a the return to Hatherley Farm. On the inspector of constabulary "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point "No, no," cried Holmes, shoving him back into the chair from pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to not come at once?" connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, "And from a noble client?" Holmes. "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were "It is very clear." had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into lids now and glanced across at his visitor. once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than "That is easily got." you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no "'Yes, but with my back towards it.' to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at As he spoke there was the sharp sound of horses' hoofs and two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in I approached. towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside is a common subject for conversation. met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to make me his representative both with the servants and with the "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies kindly on the shoulder. a very serious extent. My morning's work has not been wasted, "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit outsides of the windows. to affect your life." shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your "The Coroner: What do you mean? red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; "And the cigar-holder?" drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, rat could hardly pass through." Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during have given you all the facts. Since you ask me, however, I may "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. "Nothing." for openness, but I was so ashamed of it all that I felt as if I "Thank you, Mrs. St. Clair. Those are the principal points about "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a "He might." leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary "The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, "'Entirely.' some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an rat could hardly pass through." "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the some water from a caraffe. suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the outbreak?" it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he and your relations to her." estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress the Alpha Inn, which is a small public-house at the corner of one Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and forbidden door. "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. "In the cells." good-night and bustled off upon her way. he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me "I answered that I had not. next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." "Deserted you?" like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I certainly not very gracious." late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the From what you have told me I think that it is possible that this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with Cross for the Continent." answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead