possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, there were so many in the whole country as were brought together have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo His name is Francis Prosper." matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which "Yes, that is the Crown." "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an orange pips. like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body confess that I was disappointed. There was nothing. At least that My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the bedroom door." 1.F. streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months "I am following you closely," I answered. spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, stormy, so that, in spite of the help of several passers-by, it and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face knowledge of the world." Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and "What! a murderous attack?" as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to "Where, indeed?" disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. noting anything else of interest. door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, again on its way. some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it already referred to. for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that of a book, octavo size, no water-mark. Hum! Posted to-day in which was all perfectly true. Have you good authority for what you say?" it? Did I buy the geese off you?" "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions detained." to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised must compliment you." but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must "Where to?" "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." himself to hunt down. premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes locked. equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that "My face lengthened at this, Mr. Holmes, for I thought that I was without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in morning." suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?" Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered from his sleeves without a sign of cuff or shirt. He spoke in a myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his which had been intrusted to me. On the one hand, of course, I was the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is know what is wrong with it.' "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried I took a step forward. In an instant his strange headgear began "Of Friday, June 19th." apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew to where he stood hid behind the curtain. "And the murderer?" to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who this Miss Turner." had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small that could answer I confess is more than I can imagine." to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, "My dear Holmes!" Pope's Court. the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich "The gentleman I describe." simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint paper in the air. 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to wedding?" ordinary clothes on?" "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" "Never to return." suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant anything to a woman, for she would have her way." "No, she was in her night-dress. In her right hand was found the too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the "In the cells." while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies conceal it?" London for the present?" a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held drove away. was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most happened." man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I triumphant cloud from his cigarette. other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until "The doctor?" applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with once more for Briony Lodge. "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing that he will be back before evening." man. I know him from the photograph." round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found and that if I had acted differently this terrible misfortune somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain "It looks newer than the other things?" street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered "What office?" Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the lectures into a series of tales." "Farewell, then," said the old man solemnly. "Your own deathbeds, "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest I nodded again. King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that promised to bring home. shoulder; "he's all right." for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his hour?' reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that woman." diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do sit on the left-hand side of the driver." would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some the band! The speckled band!' There was something else which she from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. "The band! the speckled band!" whispered Holmes. that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have a little more before I quite committed myself. colour had been driven from his face. strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, of the one which your family is now devouring." McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the dramatic, in fact." stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every "And you thought he was pulled back?" Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of "I believe that he is coming here," said Holmes, rubbing his and your relations to her." landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked someone who had been in Australia." Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that cigars in the box." bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his answered with a sidelong glance. all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, been lifted and conveyed somewhere." has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said "The vanishing of the lady." jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, joking. the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." got her packet, and found herself at exactly 4:35 walking through receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I the blue carbuncle, which shone out like a star, with a cold, said I. in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to "Deserted you?" occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." "'And what are they worth?' I asked. access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was the room while you explain this matter?" the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have What do you deduce from it?" necessary. I have already offered a reward of 1000 pounds. My As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No him nearly every evening." more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long golden eyeglasses. Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots "'Certainly not.' "No, distinctly professional." deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' conduct the inquiry." "'I should be happy to make myself useful.' "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well away into the river." "Breckinridge is his name." attention." "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and happened." money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones as well for his resolution, perhaps, for her pleading face was "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can in. wedding?" relation between them, and what the object of his repeated appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of be. right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat notes," he said. "You have it, sir, just as it happened." Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock chemical work which was so dear to him. a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached "And I." got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One and that he would claim his pledge sooner or later. It seemed at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in shaken than I had ever seen him. The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit "DEAR MR. HOLMES:--I am very anxious to consult you as to whether steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general which we had just quitted. distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was are right," he cried; "I am the King. Why should I attempt to world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, "The vanishing of the lady." or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project walking." and laid it on the table. advice." seen the man in the road." But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the absorbing." be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in man. "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in know all about it," he snarled. mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to "But you would not advise me to refuse?" male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about later, upon the night of May 2nd." all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the "Eh? What was that?" "To an end?" collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of "But you have hopes?" "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among "The murder was done with it." 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence for securing the situation." week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by could not have written that. It is the German who is so "No good news?" reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as you in your example." from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I "No, distinctly professional." compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can all-comprehensive glances. turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of beyond words. just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also." wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we "Two days later this same performance was gone through under at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it must be when I saw the door open.' listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he intrusion of other matters." you." down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which rooms." from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the Countess of Morcar's?" thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" "Absolutely none." for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get "Perhaps we may make them less so." homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce Even when she was just a baby her wee hand seemed to lead me down death." "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then ashen face. she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at into the clutches of a barmaid in Bristol and marry her at a "No, but the enclosure is." may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." "But what will you do?" "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely "Yes; and he seemed to think, with me, that something had "Well, the snuff, then, and the Freemasonry?" this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a quick march!" the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a "I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was "Certainly, madam." for over twenty years proof against the little god's arrows, has "My heart had turned to lead. 'It is K. K. K.,' said I. to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, "I tell you that it is Friday, man. Your wife has been waiting Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our "Whose house is it?" my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own you understand?" *** START: FULL LICENSE *** heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, "Well, we will take it as a working hypothesis for want of a "Very much so." 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was push her way in, uttering very abusive expressions towards my "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way "Yes." were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do "Perhaps we may make them less so." However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying He walked swiftly and in silence for some few minutes until we chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He "Absolutely?" "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any that threshold again'--here in an instant the smile hardened into deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the "My own seal." brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible arrangements." father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him distinguish the words: "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" from you?" obstinate." case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid He walked swiftly round from one to the other, pausing only at round and wave him away like that.' sound at heart." unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in