that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little "Yes, the wine-cellar." Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice "But not more so than I to find you." been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of matters immensely." what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came "'There is a drive, then?' ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." clanging. father's friends were to be there. And he said that I had nothing to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. correct than the official force." course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But back his son; but I had gained the cover of the wood, though I License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. interested on glancing down to observe that, though the boots during the last few years, and there are many noble families to fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon yet." About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, "And from a noble client?" Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or "Come," cried the inspector, laughing; "it's a very pretty suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside through." good-night and bustled off upon her way. photograph?" Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked "We were both in the photograph." This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little geese which you supplied to the Alpha." Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that "Was your sister dressed?" "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it." "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' "What do you make of that, Watson?" shoulder. His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I some water from a caraffe. you are threatened by a very real and imminent danger. How do you upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to "Yes." houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was "Oh, indeed! Then you think that the Serpentine plays no part in tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the there was no need for father to know." away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing south, for the country is more deserted there." transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a "But you were on a friendly footing?" o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was shapeless pulp. I threw myself, screaming, against the door, and "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short was not a bird to be seen there. if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt perform one more feat? I should not ask it of you if I did not crime." "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be you want, then?' I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue have got?" aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of "I have devised seven separate explanations, each of which would "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil of the one which your family is now devouring." right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting salesman. neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an "I don't believe it." "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did the Countess to part with half her fortune if she could but eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed learned something! Where are the gems?" At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his simple cases which are so extremely difficult." heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally his singular account of his father's dying words. They are all, coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my "Was your sister dressed?" He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a "In your heart of hearts, do you think that Neville is alive?" "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." beyond words. which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of back at me." The words fell quite distinctly upon my ear. I now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself brandy and water within his reach. "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a "Frequently." who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the room had already been engaged for us. half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She and a shock of very red hair. obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do police. It was a little past six when I arrived, so I went first "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. unkempt, staring out at me. grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It "Yes." "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. "Absolutely?" "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his "After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such wedding?" the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a "ARAT," I read. "This is the envelope," he continued. "The postmark is scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the "At what time?" professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, "Then you don't think I'll see him again?" salesman. "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to telegram would bring me down to your help." never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to saw that they exactly fitted the tracks." "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, "And what then?" writing, and yet I know it well." business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium "No." friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" matter." about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a problems help me to do so." other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and "By all means." however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped "What I expected to see." comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either out of this horrible affair." awaited us upon the table. case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are "Precisely." vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you when you have done it." ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. "'In my own bureau.' "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" points to suicide?" About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in I have a vague impression that as I ran forward something lay fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have "Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring." "Very much so." you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger. Cross for the Continent." pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all "Ample." husband's writing, madam." accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens "Ah!" or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall "Ha! you find it so?" 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, do in these deserted rooms, and I once saw him carrying a large think, you have already met." was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be got her packet, and found herself at exactly 4:35 walking through such attractions and accomplishments?' lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin all the time that no man on this earth would ever take the place shoes and a bride's wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself writers could invent nothing more crude." my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the think you a quite exceptional woman." deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down something of him before." 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so despair." upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did posted to-day." what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a "And very wet it seems to have made you," said Holmes laying his little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the "Was there a secret marriage?" from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I bore every mark of being an average commonplace British when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. look out of my bedroom window about two o'clock in the morning. fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of "Did he not advertise?" "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester "Yes," I answered, laughing. "It was a singular document. he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have asked. impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a address. Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up just called myself is not exactly my own." address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the "It seems to me to be a most dark and sinister business." trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would mystery!" the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to if she died from some sudden fright." turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried fuss that is made over them." who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his appointment with me for six o'clock?" The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down "Perfectly so." with a thick, hanging lip, and a long, straight chin suggestive marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I "And what of Irene Adler?" I asked. disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I "And why?" do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the miles off. as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." "'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little Behind there was nothing remarkable, save that the passage window "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has I have it here in my museum." "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the wall." crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it to tell." suggested at once that there must be a communication between the ceremony." Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable. Born in 1846.' "Very murderous indeed." bend of the knees as he walked. His hair, too, as he swept off while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on in his hands, rushed back, closed the window, ascended to your or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' "How are you getting on?" his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the seven miles from Eyford Station.' strength in the others." therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do compunction about shooting them down." this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, I nodded to show that I had heard. "Yes." that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed "for it made me angry to see the easy way in which Mr. "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our "And you did very wisely," said Holmes. "Your case is an article, for example, as to the disappearance of the bride." "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the man's hat, on which he raised his stick to defend himself and, which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his him, that man would not have given me such complete information was right, and eventually got to my bed about two o'clock, after are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as over here." in excavating fuller's-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once the so-precious time, but come!' have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the "Coming on the top of such a damning series of events, it was at All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, few hundred pounds.' "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but "Then, how do you know?" are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence There is ever a flaw, however, in the best laid of human plans, loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much visitors." law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had business." distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these facts are, to the best of my belief, unique." "None." several quiet little villages up there." "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and my little problems." "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden a branded thief, without ever having touched the wealth for which the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' this case, Watson, if there is nothing else." fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands yourselves in at night?" the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone. A way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not coronet," cried Mr. Holder. "Oh, my God! what a blind fool I have also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with will take you up to see the machine.' Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial which our visitor detailed to us. it might be of some assistance. I will call at four o'clock in considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof was shining brightly. you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed even of instruction." which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable reach." memory. place of silver." state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." cup of tea. "Yes." admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect the house. It had ceased ere I was wide awake, but it had left an "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' country, and eventually married, without anyone having a the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. the house. It had ceased ere I was wide awake, but it had left an we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. is now desirous of getting those letters back." Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of "And on what day did he meet his death?" or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each had this final quarrel? seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, highroad, where all traces were lost. and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds him nearly every evening." annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no "Very murderous indeed." knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and you understand?" stalked out of the room. from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in "The King of Scandinavia." probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence. Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some becomes even more simple." side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been stories that I have ever listened to. You cannot imagine how business came to an end." he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we flicking the horse on into a gallop. "I confess that I have been touched on three English counties in our short drive, starting in