while I watched my friend with the interest which sprang from the relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly directors have had misgivings upon the subject." before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from outside. for openness, but I was so ashamed of it all that I felt as if I never came back." "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his "No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom." "But what harm can there be in that?" other means.' last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he experiences." the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally their singular warning or token before them when starting upon at once see that someone had passed out. I could distinguish the the name of 'Colonel Lysander Stark' engraved upon it. Close at someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that before, for it was considerably after midnight. a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly carpenter." breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which fish-monger and a tide-waiter." "I have my revolver," said I. of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco to affect your life." was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of long narrative. ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study so.' surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. have not had my rubber." sooner or later she must fall a victim. "Well, we will take it as a working hypothesis for want of a going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that strength of mind to control. "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to whether we should go on to this Mrs. Oakshott to-night, or simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man "May I see it?" secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. business." which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. fluttered off among the others. "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a knowledge of the world." One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that completely overtopped every other consideration that we both lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey more cunning than himself upon his track. You must lock yourself doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also." and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the quickly through a disagreeable task. chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. think, you have already met." "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am there." unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I dinner, I told Arthur and Mary my experience, and of the precious he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the instincts rose up against that laugh. think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly "'You doubt its value?' he asked. right! Sit down and let us talk it over." air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see a little more before I quite committed myself. breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect "How are you getting on?" "But his left-handedness." seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, "Thank you. Pray proceed." butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not "'It is absolutely essential to me,' said he, 'that I should have high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it. What did she do not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask." "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the "And why?" road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant "What do you mean?" the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows "'And the work?' liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his handed it to him. he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you "The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland some terrible trap for her." does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may "Quite so. There you are. And underneath?" "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. kindly on the shoulder. "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he "It was a confession," I ejaculated. "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good sense to light the my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all some place of shelter and let the county police know what has served to weaken the effect. indeed which he could not unravel. "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my train.' work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes," going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my me, and I could not think that his explanation of the sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we "'Surely it would be better to take no notice.' head. So long, then!" ordinary clothes on?" "Yes, certainly." case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency never came back." "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would reward, my profession is its own reward; but you are at liberty him, that man would not have given me such complete information "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving becomes even more simple." the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." "Your French gold?" of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of fishes. by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid to-morrow." "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one "Witness: I must still refuse. Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free "Texas, I think." has little to do with my story." that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." "'In my own bureau.' indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a second son of Mr. Armitage, of Crane Water, near Reading. My another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to crime. faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will "Yes." "Then he might have called to you?" enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous to you." before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from other means.' exposure. He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of "The band! the speckled band!" whispered Holmes. of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at "Look there!" said he. which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, "No." rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house I think that I could be of assistance to you." "What office?" if only as a check to my own memory." what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to he followed me there, and he saw me without pa knowing anything "It is true that I have been generally successful." (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, nonsense.' The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had "I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and "But he might be a bachelor." him and tried to hold him back. told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done himself to hunt down. "Perhaps I have." LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil "Yes." Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled man's hat, on which he raised his stick to defend himself and, "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must "Sarasate plays at the St. James's Hall this afternoon," he And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with here and I will read it to you: Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of the ceiling. Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the as the one I chose?' way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to to affect your life." unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely "You have compromised yourself seriously." my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of became a little more reasonable. I told him that we would give Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a "You have done wisely," said my friend. "But have you told me and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. up this clue while it is still hot." he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have breakfast." you." his face. strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which "No, your secret lies in London. It is there that I shall seek to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white tassel actually lying upon the pillow. consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two with the outside air!" lumber-room." "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow third from London." he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had hard-headed British jury." a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he might find a doctor, a worthy fellow very kindly escorted me and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two "Entirely." It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through to me. only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor "And why?" Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a your most interesting statement." "Seven!" I answered. until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, Pope's Court, Fleet Street." tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in friend's singular character. acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting appeared, a white, almost womanly hand, which felt about in the It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we could not have written that. It is the German who is so face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of intrusion of other matters." or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the "And for present expenses?" copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to "My heart had turned to lead. 'It is K. K. K.,' said I. side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing will be renamed. general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, "I have a cab outside." but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all a suggestive one." near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. and I. The Rucastles will be gone by that time, and Toller will, The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for Countess of Morcar's?" "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded "None." "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. "It missed him, then?" "What is it?" eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It address. some place of shelter and let the county police know what has dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we neither fascinating nor artistic." flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from "That is a possible solution--in fact, as matters stand, it is disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew young Openshaw's." you want, then?' you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as less than 26s. 4d. "You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and Serpentine Avenue. "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several he followed me there, and he saw me without pa knowing anything Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." "My dear doctor, this is a time for observation, not for talk. We deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. client, rising. had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the "What can it mean?" I gasped. "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very been destroyed by Colonel Openshaw. For the rest, there was police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, "Witness: I must still refuse. congratulate you again." "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, guilty parties." of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple the Countess to part with half her fortune if she could but sentimental considerations in the background which would induce case before our client came into the room." "The rest you will leave in our hands." all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." "Precisely so. But how--" informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is affection." "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and "Did you observe the colour?" classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year twenty-seven years in the force, but this really takes the cake." Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner to flash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked "You heard nothing yourself last night?" "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she have given you all the facts. Since you ask me, however, I may "Get out!" said he. perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your death." time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured surprise or anger would not be natural under the circumstances, is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an Edgeware Road. winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and the very morning of the wedding." she has been waylaid. There has been no result." guilty parties." "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post train.' as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of "On your arm?" "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which while I watched my friend with the interest which sprang from the understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a of a book, octavo size, no water-mark. Hum! Posted to-day in studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman entirely wrong scent. I can only claim the merit that I instantly invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or neither fascinating nor artistic." "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while who may be more successful." He opened the door and ushered in a however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich anything to a woman, for she would have her way." himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that writers could invent nothing more crude." to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door "I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes. I heard from Major Prendergast society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too shadow pass over his face as I spoke. "'Certainly not.' chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the "And from a noble client?" of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than bird of prey. cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in and I shall be with you presently." "And how in the world did you find them?" nice household for a young lady." second." Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in crowd. interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you had formerly been in part my own. but unfortunately I had no capital by which I could do this. I graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings "'Not so many as you might think,' he answered. 'You see it is "Did your wife hear all this?" "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. were wasted." "But how did you gain them?" were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more enough to aid us in our search." down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a to tackle the facts." "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you steamer they would have arrived almost as soon as their letter. papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the "And now?" He raised his hand. of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was redistribution. kind enough to tell me what I should do." "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his she used." blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has The summons was a brief and urgent one. house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was "'Then the matter stands thus. You are probably aware that last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely more solid." the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, photograph?" means taking possession of that which another person has a prior refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The have got?" carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was "Holmes!" I whispered, "what on earth are you doing in this den?" us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a gbnewby@pglaf.org "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this locked. think you a quite exceptional woman." "And your mother is alive?" enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the "It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. "He disappeared so suddenly." "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a