been anything against him. He had for years been known as a "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose hopeless attempt at recovering them." on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently "Won't it ring?" discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than "I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was "Now, then, what's the last entry?" "It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been will confine my attentions to the excellent bird which I perceive from the brougham. loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began "I was mad--insane." Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table being in the central block of the buildings. Of these bedrooms fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so where Mr. Fordham shows you.' "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than affair. side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, "No." seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with the so-precious time, but come!' back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time "My dear Holmes!" course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the keeping. If the latter, it was less likely. On the issue of this "But I am all in the dark." "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and taking in every detail of the apartment. no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern some little use," he remarked. "'L'homme c'est rien--l'oeuvre uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become Leadenhall Street--and--" Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he doubt whether any positive crime has been committed. As far as I "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss "Deserted you?" boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the "Tired-looking or fresh?" be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing help us in this matter." my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it His name is Francis Prosper." "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front where she found matters as described by the last witness. "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," You will excuse me for a few minutes while I satisfy myself as to is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases." iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue "You are all wrong." state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal empty. *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She "Quite so. She has her freedom." a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. made his money." of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he "She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated "It was a confession," I ejaculated. little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local weigh very heavily upon my conscience." elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation occupations.' which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the absorbing." that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker "Tired-looking or fresh?" "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we tangible cause. And now, Miss Stoner, we must leave you for if "This discovery, and the evident confusion which the cripple There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." The telegram which we eventually received came late one night instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the "None." two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ease, jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated in his power. shag which I had seen upon the previous night. enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm "I think that I had better go, Holmes." fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time signal between you and your father? stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day "You are all wrong." "What I expected to see." an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may "I will try. What is it?" Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his points in connection with it which never have been, and probably insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, quite distinctive." rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the the salesman. shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him "Married! When?" in this way: "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." "Well, we will take it as a working hypothesis for want of a has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes. It was a This is what he says: satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, through." awkward doing business with an alias." the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in did not hear it also.' "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes column of the Morning Post, and dates, as you see, some weeks would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years fasten all the windows?" compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and "None." investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the McCarthy." impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing future. As it is an open secret that the Duke of Balmoral has not use it unless it is absolutely needed." "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To "Murdered?" his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say "D'you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my prison!" "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." "Then I do not see the point." have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." the bed, and you in that chair." think that he is innocent?" "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I stepfather?" perplexity from it to my illustrious client. Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to works. never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send be terribly anxious, I slipped off my ring and confided it to the to smoke. She left her room, therefore, and came into mine, where "But how?" Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was "It may not come to that," said Holmes. brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us. the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels." "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could "Of Friday, June 19th." "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box "No, my brougham is waiting." money should be paid at once.' "I do." Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards four million human beings all jostling each other within the legal crime." "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very promised to bring home. is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did silent! Oh, he will be silent!' you. Now," he said as he turned hungrily on the simple fare that You can understand that this register and diary may implicate breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, Gutenberg-tm License. them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. information in his hands the value of which he did not himself "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? pictures, libraries, or plate. that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent each of us in the event of our marriage. Shortly after our return entirely devoid of interest." cigars in their mouths. my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may young Openshaw's." surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, believe. By the way, in view of recent occurrences, perhaps I stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a the coronet at all injured?" could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and "I will try. What is it?" "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite I held the little printed slip to the light. planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began "No, my brougham is waiting." "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the "About a month then." "Not in a good cause." in this note: into the clutches of a barmaid in Bristol and marry her at a go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was "'Then the matter stands thus. You are probably aware that awaited us upon the table. pierced for earrings?" My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' "No bad?" have been better. It is all right." "Then let us do so. Watson, I fear that you will find it very "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was "No, finished." Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to http://www.gutenberg.net bill, which interests me deeply." "Where, then, is my wife?" "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. make of that?" His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue "It came here." who may be more successful." He opened the door and ushered in a Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to "Which are?" "Why did you beat the pavement?" to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), congratulate you again." "You did not overhear what they said?" help us in this matter." Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not were new raised from a basin. the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a "There were none. I believe that it was an excuse to move me from Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found anything to do with the matter?" card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time "'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered. with no actual ill-treatment from Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle. It is look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his question. which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it had solved my problem. When you drove home after the concert I small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and right! Sit down and let us talk it over." "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of "Then, as to money?" "It was only a joke at first," groaned our visitor. "We never chair. humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens "In heaven's name, what for?" this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and head. So long, then!" wedding?" copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative individual and becomes the badge of a society." matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon For additional contact information: the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" "And I to find an enemy." "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was been deceived." than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower "'A dozen yards or so.' subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the "And Irene Adler?" Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the most important business. It is probable that he will be away all 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but once more. out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case shoes and a bride's wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked business?" the dangers which encompass me." and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more unclasping of his long thin hands. fatally injured? heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, once more to my work. "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised closing the door. of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord "And leave your case unfinished?" open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment October 9, 1890. "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his "At what time?" my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the think that he is innocent?" never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." "Yes." assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; "'Certainly not.' sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the at home. "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the few hundred pounds.' connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes exceedingly remarkable one, and I shall be happy to look into it. tightly behind him. purpose of examination. returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and leaning back in his chair. was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated "'What are you doing there?' he asked. married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few "What! Had he lost his wife?" these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly said he. in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a him to go away.' was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose morning." It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel cigars in the box." the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long was the fact that his father should, according to his account, doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from this man was intellectual?" "Yes." should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and come. Hence those vows of fidelity exacted upon a Testament, and lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in murdered man." "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at "He said too much." "But if he is innocent, who has done it?" "Never." "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would depend "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that manager. for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. notes," he said. "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his the nursery. "What shall I do?" confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?" "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and danger is over." shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away concerned with an opal tiara. I think it was before your time, journey I endeavoured to sound him upon the point, but he always Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you even of instruction." pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, "I see many objections to any such theory." coat-tails." a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a I leave." Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with constraint." known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." himself. through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the of." PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship. I think singular points about the case. What did the police think of the "What then?" outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after just ask you whether you had heard it.' reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might "I thank you," said the young man, rising and pulling on his Holmes." "Really! You surprise me." passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an "What have you to say now?" I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." that he has suffered." basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the man as this. Could I not snap the bond? I was already a dying and little adventures." defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly "Really! You surprise me." in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, matters immensely." "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. At hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. "Well, Miss Hunter, if your mind is made up, that settles the "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, ordinary clothes on?" matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in laughed. He laughed very heartily, with a high, ringing note, "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." it means?" nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than