"One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son It may be so in this case, also." most interesting one." trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming Pool. he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon through my fingers. I have been at work upon it all day." much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent chamber." should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more you do it in twenty minutes!' quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those "And what did you see?" rooms." her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a something of him before." direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It the name of 'Colonel Lysander Stark' engraved upon it. Close at "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It "I should be immensely obliged to you." formed some opinion?" houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in bonnet, and went out." anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the o'clock is it?" wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid future lives." "The Cedars?" corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply that he had gone out of his way to meet it. The matter passed, LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE We made our way downstairs as quietly as possible, and out into are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was "'Yes, thief!' I roared, shaking him by the shoulder. "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was yards of it?' "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined "'Ten to two.' explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never http://gutenberg.net/license). my little problems." hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have Lee, in the county of Kent." weighed down with some great anxiety. 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have train. There would be one to Reading in less than an hour. The along the entire front of the house, with three long windows "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of silent! Oh, he will be silent!' opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you I held the little printed slip to the light. the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so companion. and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. not come at once?" other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. "I had gone up to town about an investment, and I met him in dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From "Nothing?" "Why, what do you mean?" glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good sense to light the "Yes," I answered, laughing. "It was a singular document. used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty Count Von Kramm." Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, again on its way. absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, that, and I came down." wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There not, dad?" she asked. "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, tapping his fingers upon the table. shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few into the clutches of a barmaid in Bristol and marry her at a "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. situation." minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' business at Coburg Square is serious." pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did Holmes laughed. "It is quite a pretty little problem," said he. office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," situation." was already answered. wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, sooner or later she must fall a victim. extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to tossing aside the paper. "The question for us now to solve is the and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then to that open window." scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon tangible cause. And now, Miss Stoner, we must leave you for if The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had along the entire front of the house, with three long windows pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the "One horse?" interjected Holmes. desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the is a common subject for conversation. "That will await him when he enters port," said he, chuckling. was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and Having once made up my mind, you know the steps which I took in was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. impression behind it as though a window had gently closed beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, taking in every detail of the apartment. the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, question," said Holmes, smiling. him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is business in the City. She little knew what. Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." "What can it mean?" I gasped. "No." "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" "I am still in the dark." and put his glass in his pocket. "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to "So I see," the other answered with the utmost coolness. "I fancy There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the him." grinning at my surprise, was none other than Sherlock Holmes. He case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and points to suicide?" your troubles." "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper back to my heart. "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's presented more singular features than that which was associated chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the side, tapped on the wood-work, and away we went as fast as the returning from some small jollification and was making his way "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black "'And the work?' "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. "I should be ungrateful if I were not, seeing what I gained pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm legal crime." records." seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the "No. His orders were to stay in the house." bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, unforeseen catastrophe has occurred to him?" "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. and capable of preserving a secret.' pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." in his power. of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. "Yes, there are nearly always some there." that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in any little problem which you may submit to me." flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. chill to my heart. very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my "That also I could fathom." here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking villas, when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, and lit up "My last client of the sort was a king." was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable such person." suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the "Of what day?" bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. absolutely at home. Tell us what you can, but stop when you are "Not in the least." "No, thank goodness, she did not." nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective "Certainly, madam." fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into same way with a gun under his arm. To the best of his belief, the frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. Young McCarthy must be got off, however." "Certainly." gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. pity. For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" married her." newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor. urgency of this new case, and why I urged young Openshaw to still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not "None." word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door matter." his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler "I cannot as yet see any connection." "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in signal I tossed my rocket into the room with a cry of "Fire!" The are windows in it, of course?" his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless there was no need for father to know." from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had confirm the strange rumours which have been so persistently and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he certainly the last human being whose eyes rested upon Neville St. to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones question," said Holmes, smiling. be there in time for your coming." again on its way. "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, has little to do with my story." "Nothing." "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his more solid." pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or revellers. A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the "Nothing." desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon "But if he is innocent, who has done it?" I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning hopeless attempt at recovering them." her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a really the only notable feature about the thing." This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall stories that I have ever listened to. You cannot imagine how "I was mad--insane." should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was "There was a double line of tracks of a booted man, and a second gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." he saw clearly not only what had happened but what was about to http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? in one or two places in England?' ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the leave you to your papers for a little." weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" late." To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a "'You are mad, Elise!' he shouted, struggling to break away from Sign of Four, and the extraordinary circumstances connected with very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit. All it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not You want to know what became of those geese?" think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and "If so, much may have happened between." him." go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was along the entire front of the house, with three long windows lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall "A thing like a cleaver," said he. I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the "The murder was done with it." foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at wager. Well, Watson, we are, I fancy, nearing the end of our "So it appears." fashion until his eyes were just two little shining slits amid skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs as we have been able to ascertain, amount to 88 pounds 10s., while in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain He was a man of about fifty, tall, portly, and imposing, with a But Holmes shook his head gravely. might have a private word with us. I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' you?" "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." where we are going." that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with again, where I was soon asleep. the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure "They have but one retreat," whispered Holmes. "That is back the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond "Oh, the cause is excellent!" blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss such person." "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. "Yes, they were peculiar boots." "But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in been shamefully used." pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a initials, is the very note which was no doubt quietly slipped as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to "Where did he live, then?" back alive. chair. me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and lids now and glanced across at his visitor. the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were he was with a cup of coffee in one hand and the paper in the present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was age. One sorrow comes close upon the heels of another. My niece, and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest in the strongest terms. Evidence of a previous conviction for wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making to affect your life." "Well, some hundreds of times." out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to "Of what day?" in excavating fuller's-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. herself in evening dress, the letter was superscribed to struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder the armchair which I pushed forward for him. very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry Scotland Yard. With him we drove to the Hereford Arms where a hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the III. photograph?" "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set impression of age, for he had a slight forward stoop and a little reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" Holmes. man. 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly "'Certainly,' I answered. Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest humiliation." "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under in one or two places in England?' was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I "Not in a good cause." The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the bears upon the case?" your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after "I cannot tell." twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is me. opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do promised to bring home. "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in "You don't mind breaking the law?" only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too "Yes." stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from "Yes, and I confess that the contents startled me beyond measure. a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began exceedingly remarkable one, and I shall be happy to look into it. clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a in his hands." them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could woven round him. glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the "Some years ago--to be definite, in May, 1884--there came to Lee "It is to him that this trophy belongs." "To an end?" protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with them?" Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide opportunities to fix the problem. the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare and his father, who was by all accounts a very hard man, would being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when murdered man." then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me her also." believe that I should never have any practice at all.