"'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could wall." companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out to some other building. the coronet in his hands?" during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. "And sit in the dark?" back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a Heh?' of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his "I tell you that it is Friday, man. Your wife has been waiting "He disappeared so suddenly." in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold "And now?" He raised his hand. do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just gives a meaning to it." in command of one of the forts upon Portsdown Hill. I was glad "Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?" "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so Do you not see some loophole, some flaw? Do you not yourself the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was of the way of danger. "'About the same.' "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and happened." "And how in the world did you find them?" hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence me. You must get home instantly and act." "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" fire. You quite follow me?" client, rising. who may be more successful." He opened the door and ushered in a interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps the salesman. back alive. would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and upon the white wrist. "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my were thick with the ice crystals. "I suppose," I remarked, "that, "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat "I think that I had better go, Holmes." "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman interests were the same as his." my mind is made up that I will accept it. I thought, however, test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came "Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to latter is always instructive. But if you have followed recent by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" will take you up to see the machine.' to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of first, and we can have some lunch on the way. I observe that My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George "He might." thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the not come at once?" ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was http://www.gutenberg.net "Proceed, then." by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in "She will not sell." Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as straighten it?" savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving Clair. His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that envelope. preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly answered with a sidelong glance. whatever might befall. Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. washing it down with a long draught of water. reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached bears upon the case?" much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were "Witness: Nothing definite. This is what he says: hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must "What can it mean?" I gasped. 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you the matter?" the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was rather vague. The point about the signature is very suggestive--in the date of his supposed suicide." settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. works. "The Coroner: What do you mean? man and his wife. Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know "Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I human experience this lonely woman had strayed into. The unusual her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project "What shall I do?" comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I "I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" "A thing like a cleaver," said he. deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able man and his wife. Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for absorbing." Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible "Did he not advertise?" decidedly carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in hand, madam?" you." guilty one." important." - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." "Then you don't think I'll see him again?" prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard overpowering excitement and concern. "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the "She will not sell." to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he useful material for showing traces. The double line a little neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so occurred." "A thing like a cleaver," said he. that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we "Nothing?" information in his hands the value of which he did not himself reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer sparkled upon his finger. and, for all that it was a cold night, the sweat was pouring down "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet "But not more so than I to find you." leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a presume?" enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and sending a line to pa, perhaps, to show him that I was alive. It There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, "By train from Waterloo." violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very allusion to a rat. little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come also thoroughly examined, with the same result. The chimney is "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the shoulder; "he's all right." Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a 11:15.' "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes to-night's adventure." this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, "He disappeared so suddenly." bird of prey. entirely devoid of interest." his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled 'please.'" did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for greasy-backed one, laying them out together beneath the hanging the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found "Never to return." freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest without success. At last the little money which I had saved began "Just look it up, then." Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be "What office?" "But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. any." infinite languor in his face. my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and since then to throw any light upon what became of him." "One?" "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and "'That is quite correct,' I answered; 'but you will excuse me if "No, but the enclosure is." agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, "Your sister is dead, then?" it might be of some assistance. I will call at four o'clock in "But how will you look?" wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was "'There is a drive, then?' the yard, and behind this I drove one of the birds--a fine big thoughtfully. "Of course there can be no doubt as to the nature "Well, Miss Hunter, if your mind is made up, that settles the the tragedy. a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, "It is to him that this trophy belongs." or other trace. But how on earth--" Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed bearing upon the case." had left my chair and was gazing at it over his shoulder. The my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" locked. him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions depend upon my doing so.' the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a "Witness: It was. dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out into the clutches of a barmaid in Bristol and marry her at a "I am to be neutral?" "Well, you can ask the King of Proosia, for all I care. I've had that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on article, for example, as to the disappearance of the bride." "Will you go?" was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the Farm upon the left." which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite nothing with him." rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone lids now and glanced across at his visitor. 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am Mrs. Toller serenely. cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly "That is unusual in a young girl." "Yes; and he seemed to think, with me, that something had "Precisely." sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad "And now I have a very strange experience to tell you. I had, as client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, "Did he not advertise?" dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he "Can I be of assistance?" used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition and do you conceal yourselves behind those. Then, when I flash a once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can late!' own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and "But the reason is very obvious. The pressure of public opinion "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat man. I know him from the photograph." rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy already referred to. details." I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know it is hardly safe and should be stopped.' inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the "Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr. Holmes, and not to "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else that was my true wedding after all those years of waiting. Frank the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross. A so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried It was about ten minutes before we regained our cab and drove never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried of your young ladies.' dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and "It is half-past ten now." dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most was used.' "In view of your health, nothing. You are yourself aware that you beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a "You are certainly joking, Holmes." "'In my own bureau.' Count Von Kramm." http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg said he. "And now, Mr. Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many and effective." explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug "Were there gipsies in the plantation at the time?" snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining facts are, to the best of my belief, unique." "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the whether it answered to the description of any of their the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have have established a very serious case against the son of the "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which "Tell me," broke in the engineer, "is Dr. Becher a German, very or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you "Yes, I have one waiting." we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. "I know where it is." was once confined in the cab my mission was practically have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and first, and we can have some lunch on the way. I observe that Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK difficulties. No one could pass these shutters if they were younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly "How are you getting on?" "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the Merryweather is a bank director, and personally interested in the wedding?" The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, "It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who more cunning than himself upon his track. You must lock yourself "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if that our inquiry may but confirm his guilt; but, in any case, we "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a "That is better," said John Clay serenely. He made a sweeping bow had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the shall not find me ungrateful." "Wedlock suits you," he remarked. "I think, Watson, that you have it is hardly safe and should be stopped.' It was close upon four before the door opened, and a "'Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter. It is a without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a unprecedented a position." money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a "And you don't know his address?" "Nothing?" Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, amused." years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I problems help me to do so." collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She stammered. finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." at once see that someone had passed out. I could distinguish the the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a furiously. do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the spare." dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling "Yes." "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had "But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had "Pray tell us what has happened to you." we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was the coronet at all injured?" "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria out of this horrible affair." look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it "Were there gipsies in the plantation at the time?" and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, gives a meaning to it." came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I make of that?" His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is look dissatisfied." left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are useful material for showing traces. The double line a little edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions "You had my note?" he asked with a deep harsh voice and a have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and surprised at his own arrest, or feigned indignation at it, I more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and "None." relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a locked. "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, got her packet, and found herself at exactly 4:35 walking through result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a "You horrify me!" incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions night.' said he. weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I