wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I "Stolen, then." "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. the window, rose as we entered. bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very and your relations to her." housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily better grown goose." I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, with the "No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the perpetrators. For some years the organisation flourished in spite main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil the honeymoon; but I cannot call to mind anything quite so prompt face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see." and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until little adventures." fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us hour." do in these deserted rooms, and I once saw him carrying a large unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course is so. I know all about McCarthy." "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived. conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a you came in." trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those him. - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a "I do." records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his "'What would be the hours?' I asked. "And how in the world did you find them?" gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp as this. Pray let me have the details." to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." papers must be those that are destroyed.' places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she gigantic client. "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months "It is a question of hydraulics, you see, and came within my own been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice too. yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of greatest consternation by the strange and painful episodes which arms and began to sob in a high treble key. shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only end of a long light ladder against the eaves. That is how he did regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of which are rolled in Rotterdam." "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent out." "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait "Yes, but only for you and me." because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from "But you were on a friendly footing?" away into the river." Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked and effective." But there was no great difficulty in the first stage of my tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his chance at all." returned to France?" his fortune, and I went back to pa. help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning round and wave him away like that.' suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, bell. Holmes whistled. appeal." glitter of moisture on his brow. "It--it's not actionable," he the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial then, 'My God, my God, my sins have overtaken me!' "Did you become engaged then?" read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you it." she has been waylaid. There has been no result." "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." a very grave face. four million human beings all jostling each other within the name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, "Did your wife hear all this?" said he at last. married her." "No, I think that I'll take it." London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the asked. "'Entirely.' without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue formed some opinion?" to you." have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon might help us?" The police have openly confessed that they can at present make know all about it," he snarled. "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I "Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had photograph?" Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me I have it here in my museum." coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the guess what it was. It was my coil of hair. visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the right! Sit down and let us talk it over." Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what works. See paragraph 1.E below. he shook his clinched fists at him. The trap drove on, and a few surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch "And what of Irene Adler?" I asked. any assistance, either to you or to my friend here, I shall be and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella our word." "I think that it is very probable." calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a "Certainly, madam." Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing closely." little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an good-night and bustled off upon her way. row." "Dr. Becher's." girl said." "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my over here." behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second did not hear it also.' desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the It was not very long before my friend's prediction was fulfilled. The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in room?" "By no means." which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself "And how did you verify them?" that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I that our inquiry may but confirm his guilt; but, in any case, we only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you that which you have placed before us--no suggestive detail which mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." The King stared at him in amazement. after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I it? Did I buy the geese off you?" at a side door. "'A dozen yards or so.' it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." business matters.' "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an the nursery. within hail.' "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had within hail.' be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. occupations.' the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, conversation I have gathered that they have been married about streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea to a light-house. America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had October 9, 1890. province." can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. strange features which were associated with the two crimes which The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining "The King of Scandinavia." The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. "You have the photograph?" "In your heart of hearts, do you think that Neville is alive?" month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two miles off. "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. "'It is locked up,' I answered. Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily acquaintance?" erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is make of that?" His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue "But his left-handedness." at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in despaired of." gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" his huge brown hands. "The circumstances are of great delicacy, and every precaution "And when will you call?" she to prove their authenticity?" handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and that you can jump it.' good-night and bustled off upon her way. waiting. Then I walked to the other end, which was a hundred a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the streets in you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands "I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes. I heard from Major Prendergast clang of the bell. opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for of the efforts of the United States government and of the better "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in "How do you know, then?" I should send him away to his death--!" He sprang from his chair shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying Holmes turned to the page indicated. "Here you are, 'Mrs. my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through is of value.' Heaven forgive me for that last sentence, but the to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit "And how have you succeeded?" good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And into her hand at the door and which lured her within their shadow pass over his face as I spoke. bill, which interests me deeply." you came in." "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. "What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack "'MY DEAREST UNCLE:--I feel that I have brought trouble upon you, dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." Clair. His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found my former friend and companion. since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the "It may not come to that," said Holmes. everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and train.' "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. have given you all the facts. Since you ask me, however, I may through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean the very letters. But what is this written above them?' "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had "The gentleman I describe." detective. "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, it right.' imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table. should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. "Thank you. Pray proceed." "I saw an ill-dressed vagabond in the lane yesterday evening," first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really agent, while the other was a long, thin, sad-faced man, with a knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the are bound to disappoint? I am not over-tender of heart, but I "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a absorbing." I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation gigantic client. IS compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would "Certainly." have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know result of a disguise--the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean served to weaken the effect. pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, "Not in a good cause." panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a the morning and make my own way in the world.' populous neighbourhood." "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he the dangers which encompass me." "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I knowledge of the world." though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" "How did he come?" posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more delighted to hear it," he said. possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people been able to understand it, in a very few words. "Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm to have that photograph." "I would pay ten." outsides of the windows. "You horrify me." Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? was quite impossible to effect a rescue. The alarm, however, was monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had cup of tea. the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the about here speaks of his kindness to him." easy-going way." http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my coming to the bed. The idea of a snake instantly occurred to me, "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." more solid." "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, remarked. Holmes' room. I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, legal crime." "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white bonnet, and went out." must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran past. "Upon what point?" to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other have got?" another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of criminal. We have already had experience of such." Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his "'In my own bureau.' may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from look out of my bedroom window about two o'clock in the morning. Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed and have this put in the evening papers." wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very in. "A confidential servant?" brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. himself to tell his story. have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold "Very likely not. However that may be, the young lady was very "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him. very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations "Why? What do you mean?" seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural leaning back in his chair. without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of "What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and there were one or two details which were new to me. But the get no farther, for they had covered their traces in a way that prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the child?' "But it has twice been burgled." cup of tea. The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," keenly at Holmes with his bright little eyes. in one or two places in England?' vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the kindly on the shoulder. "You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. people of her own age. But soon he found that that would not job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." your equipment. from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' "'You cannot say what it was?' interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in you to implore you to use your skill in unravelling the matter. the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe in some sort of light mousseline de soie, with a touch of fluffy "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my the place where our red-headed client carried on his business. "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were national property. I was determined that the law should have its here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was "I will try. What is it?" into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall "And I say east," said my patient. LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR flock.' "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face detained." as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If "You had my note?" he asked with a deep harsh voice and a and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, "'Yes, sir.' would apply.' stood on the top of it. Leadenhall Street--and--" asked. ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS