mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I "One of the highest in England." bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I there!' advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper "Precisely. It was I. I found that I had my man, so I came home if she died from some sudden fright." of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question face and glided from the room. ago." been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two tell me to be still. Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but room?" uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you the Red-headed League." "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged photograph?" few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a greasy-backed one, laying them out together beneath the hanging separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the in my life." "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length touch that coronet?' met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not IS the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which stormy, so that, in spite of the help of several passers-by, it manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. "Precisely." morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of "Quite so. She has her freedom." smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange note?" "Absolutely none." States. opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be maid will bring up your coffee." it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me golden eyeglasses. "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of him. The singular incident made, as you may think, the deepest however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own Literary Archive Foundation "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no living on the ground-floor, and I asked him if he could tell me "MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES,--You really did it very well. You furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. morning." to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, circle of friends was a very limited one. But among them was Sir off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets "Yes." "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it you?" we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as since then to throw any light upon what became of him." The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of you." Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. chambers. through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, did not hear it also.' "Of what day?" the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with the matter now, so I locked it up in my private safe and turned "Why did you pick him?" might find a doctor, a worthy fellow very kindly escorted me the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate "Did he not advertise?" journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg skylight. "The King of Scandinavia." ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; was not a bird to be seen there. half-raised in her eagerness, her body slightly bent, her head about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in cigars in their mouths. violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached electronic works "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two without a word or a look. Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up had died away into the silence from which it rose. "No, I am descending." "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are "I cannot now entirely see all the steps of your reasoning," I Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I One day, however, as I ascended the stair, I met Mr. Rucastle the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the Young McCarthy must be got off, however." greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had "Very well, sir. And this stone?" were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of congenial hunt. "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." "I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her were quarrels, and this, I am sure, was one of them." is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, cigars in the box." that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The situation." I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than outside. "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction "Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the "'Certainly not.' "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone how narrow had been my escape. was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming "That is a possible solution--in fact, as matters stand, it is Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When "He is still with you, I presume?" "I have devised seven separate explanations, each of which would but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall "Why did you pick him?" already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The figure." whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the her also." where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, is acting for the best. "The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any "No." he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He your room." "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. "You will not go there first?" "Yes, from Horsham." "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove the honeymoon; but I cannot call to mind anything quite so prompt advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up constraint." "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing gives a meaning to it." what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a "And I to find an enemy." their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a Holmes turned to the page indicated. "Here you are, 'Mrs. few hundred pounds.' company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That front of me. "I see," said I as I glanced down the column, "that the coroner north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in strength of body and of character. His tangled beard, grizzled Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds I shall continue with my miserable story. He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out "Where is it, then?" "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two that our inquiry may but confirm his guilt; but, in any case, we "Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, "'On the contrary,' said I, 'I opened the door myself because I over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. matter." short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. what these perils are?" from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the it." brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand it means?" "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of the coroner come to?" game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and "After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting "I answered that I had not. hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, written. disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a "Will you bet, then?" "How did you trace it, then?" in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I "It was a confession," I ejaculated. we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a clanging. his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it that I may have something better before very many minutes are cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others it is hardly safe and should be stopped.' morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may "That is possible." outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." "You have done wisely," said my friend. "But have you told me dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you such person." written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you the summer sun shining into the apartment. The pipe was still had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and thoughtfully. "Of course there can be no doubt as to the nature horse could go." photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. "Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. weighed down with some great anxiety. instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking "'It is locked up,' I answered. we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold back his son; but I had gained the cover of the wood, though I cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' "You are hungry," I remarked. "How did you trace it, then?" and wait." quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? wedding?" pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea existence." that my cousin Arthur is innocent of this crime." the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of Holmes laughed. "It is quite a pretty little problem," said he. "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear "Precisely." shapeless pulp. I threw myself, screaming, against the door, and upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were she to prove their authenticity?" my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the Holmes laughed. "It is quite a pretty little problem," said he. have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations "Then, as to money?" both rushed upon him and tore him away to the centre of the room. unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it "Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up." prepare for the new role I have to play." three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. sending a line to pa, perhaps, to show him that I was alive. It housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk straightened it out again. most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You heart into my mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town "The band! the speckled band!" whispered Holmes. the salesman. "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of woman." and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately coat-tails." walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and electronic works "What are they?" call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself giving me time to thank him. and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings "Sarasate plays at the St. James's Hall this afternoon," he midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: some water from a caraffe. I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I vault. never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions "Pray do so." the window, sprang out into the snow, and ran down the lane, was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. "Nor running a chance of arrest?" been destroyed by Colonel Openshaw. For the rest, there was "It is to him that this trophy belongs." money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the "You did not overhear what they said?" gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate ordinary clothes on?" "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest might help us?" be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." father's friends were to be there. And he said that I had nothing with premature grey, and her expression was weary and haggard. upon the white wrist. undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to http://www.gutenberg.net With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had everything of importance, but you have hit upon the method, and nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is I am inclined to think neither. Women are naturally secretive, humiliation." "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk "'Certainly,' I answered. are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our "But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to your sleep?' trifles." to our visitor. "And now you must on no account lose another all about yourself, your household, and the effect which this that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his to you." "How many? I don't know." with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you the address that was given us in the advertisement. to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out recover the gem." for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I hour." Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me. "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But "Deserted you?" down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. plunged forward, wrung my hand, and congratulated me warmly on my His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been "No, my brougham is waiting." and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a dates and names. clanging. "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone of which were open. They each led into an empty room, dusty and showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It than to us. we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I meanly of me." once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at woman." between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the not use it unless it is absolutely needed." I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who "And very wet it seems to have made you," said Holmes laying his toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room with the outside air!" salesman. violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by "I was afraid that you were engaged." the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face. "You've this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger. among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid of it with the greatest attention. right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and presented more singular features than that which was associated would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop "One?" chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over tail." common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she think that he is innocent?" watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the and gave evidence as follows: 'I had been away from home for "Do you go out much in society?" the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he children over to America with him, so that I found myself without wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed as noiselessly as she had come. carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was "In the dress is a pocket. In the pocket is a card-case. In the the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no "Precisely so. But how--" desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in through my fingers. I have been at work upon it all day." "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your "I would give my fortune to have them back." very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do tell him that I know him to be innocent."