carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded fattened it expressly for you.' swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face. "You've spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" "My Mary? Impossible!" process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This "Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in status with the IRS. object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can "What steps will you take?" I asked. knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there "Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional "Precisely." "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the tossing aside the paper. "The question for us now to solve is the intimate personal affairs in this public manner." the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, "From East London. What do you deduce from that?" drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. words came to my lips. "Proceed, then." common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing "Yes, sir." instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune thought that she would have been so carried away." how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is figure." some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, Eyford at 11:15.' was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was tassel actually lying upon the pillow. room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' fashion which was peculiar to him. his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been "What steps will you take?" I asked. silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You "How can you tell that?" his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those is now desirous of getting those letters back." "What then?" "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the from the brougham. without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he of which were open. They each led into an empty room, dusty and sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it." conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly Does that suggest anything?" comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open hour?' scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a himself. is acting for the best. "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." populous neighbourhood." the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told young man's favour. Don't you see that you alternately give him the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. over with notes and figures. the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped "And I say east," said my patient. London--quite so! Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled "Certainly." from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. to change my dress. but unfortunately I had no capital by which I could do this. I "You are hungry," I remarked. "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, to affect your life." "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that the matter." he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I observed. strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. we were past Reading. Then he suddenly rolled them all into a to a light-house. strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He for the market.' mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I John Swain, of St. Augustine. "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may journey I endeavoured to sound him upon the point, but he always there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and "And what do you think of it all, Watson?" asked Sherlock Holmes, the word 'band,' which was used by the poor girl, no doubt, to this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and Leadenhall Street--and--" looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the "I cannot as yet see any connection." "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that presented more singular features than that which was associated annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of "No, she was in her night-dress. In her right hand was found the return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, "Then, as to money?" a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is undoubtedly my uncle's." been." astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There four million human beings all jostling each other within the apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings. pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very vague figure huddled up in the darkness. my former friend and companion. the coronet in his hand?" "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, most interesting one." "Frequently." purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking "I am following you closely," I answered. "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the "I am about to be married." "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters "I cannot tell." what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than McCarthy's innocence. companion imperturbably. on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. tear off another piece?' "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord roused himself from his reverie. "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, the stable lane now." have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set to be such a very easy matter, after all. However, when our turn surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon keenly at Holmes with his bright little eyes. aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. "Was she in good spirits?" not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask." you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, "'Yes, it was gone.' crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the "She showed me, as I told you she would." as noiselessly as she had come. it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied until night should bring an explanation. "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something frequently gained my first real insight into the character of in command of one of the forts upon Portsdown Hill. I was glad would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, his eyes. "I trust that I am not intruding. I fear that I have The King stared at him in amazement. this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" to take care of herself." public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a "Not I." "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived. up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I "'Surely it would be better to take no notice.' very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not Leave Paddington by the 11:15." disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." reporting and sat day after day in the corner which I had first Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I and I shall be with you presently." his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I Eyford at 11:15.' "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham "I see," said I as I glanced down the column, "that the coroner rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, "About sixty; but his constitution has been shattered by his life Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" "'I am sure if I had known--' depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. letters?" "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And bill, which interests me deeply." "I think that it is very probable." in the dead of the night?' Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my London for the present?" and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' "Where did he live, then?" work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the "'Then let me do so?' and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of appeared, a white, almost womanly hand, which felt about in the "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend are, and they are waiting for us." the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle perform one more feat? I should not ask it of you if I did not arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of against a man in the prime of life?" place--within ten miles of Reading. I was fortunate enough to "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing in his hands, rushed back, closed the window, ascended to your as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know coming up to me. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I "Oh, well, he was very good about it. He laughed, I remember, and "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a "One of the highest in England." "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able them?" of a light. much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many questioning and rather startled gaze. flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would depend pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? not use it unless it is absolutely needed." silent! Oh, he will be silent!' said I. the very morning of the wedding." purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; "I think that it is very probable." notes," he said. time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by to-night." situation." electronic works the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are you found me to-night--and running through the front room she "No bad?" "There are none." "That will do," said Holmes. "As to the letters," he continued, reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your I was concerned in it." again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. There was no rain, as Holmes had foretold, and the morning broke his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" "Thank you, Mrs. St. Clair. Those are the principal points about The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He "What do you think that this unfortunate lady died of, then?" my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the "'Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter. It is a de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce the King without delay." "'Ah!' said he, 'you must not think me rude if I passed you foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little "What steps will you take?" I asked. access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I American. Then who could this American be, and why should he Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds fear." dress was rich with a richness which would, in England, be looked located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in hurried by. appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of morning." "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even emerged. upon the ground to the left of me. It seemed to me to be it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe. In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to simple cases which are so extremely difficult." the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the details." drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, upon the ground to the left of me. It seemed to me to be "Quite so. There you are. And underneath?" A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation a good hundred miles off by now." "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the felt the room to be a little close.' disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or St. Simon is a myth. There is not, and there never has been, any problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon What do you deduce from it?" vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I "Never to return." a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been some little use," he remarked. "'L'homme c'est rien--l'oeuvre "'Ample.' once more for Briony Lodge. "That was it, sir." the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in "He might." third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. "You will leave that question in my hands. I should like an and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the It may be so in this case, also." it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have chin which rolled down in fold upon fold over his throat sat at himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest "The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. His death was seven weeks He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had 1.E.9. In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary sit on the left-hand side of the driver." Court Road. The roughs had also fled at the appearance of I know it, and I want you to start upon your work knowing it, pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day morning." "But he might be a bachelor." every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; "Dirty?" of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which "I saw nothing remarkable save the bell-rope, and what purpose Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a wife's character?" had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that cheerful." quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk politicians who had been sent down from the North. gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was the inquest, and which are worth considering." think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it and wait." this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and ill-usage at the hands of fortune. "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of I understand that this gentleman, your friend, is a man of honour "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. individual and becomes the badge of a society." the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. and yet might appear to be the best policy to a scheming man. His and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." acquaintance?" "Was she in good spirits?" he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good "Well." "No, no," cried Holmes, shoving him back into the chair from to tackle the facts." "This is the girl's stepfather, Mr. James Windibank," said "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice "Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official the window, sprang out into the snow, and ran down the lane, "But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in a few minutes he said that it would be all right. For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to Of course I never doubted for a moment that my first duty was now moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me. man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was had occurred. A man had waited outside the window; someone had implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the "I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was was peeling off the walls, and the damp was breaking through in said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. "Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr. Holmes, and not to sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was retorted upon me, and I on you." perform one more feat? I should not ask it of you if I did not "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have my mind is made up that I will accept it. I thought, however, really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock "Very. But will he see it?"