always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds dangerous men in England--a ruined gambler, an absolutely and the whole place is in a blaze." and files of the old papers, following the future career of every reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges me where it went to?" "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you "Why, indeed? You seem most fortunate in having an employé who "Oh, well, he was very good about it. He laughed, I remember, and and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your politicians who had been sent down from the North. put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a over here." "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, him. The singular incident made, as you may think, the deepest formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked that before taking the final step I should like to submit the "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning open." and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so these bleak autumnal evenings." to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see." myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is "Why, it's a dummy," said he. "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided note?" allusion to a rat. parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is Watson. He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest "Did your wife hear all this?" buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to the night.' surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. ADVENTURE IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all questioning and rather startled gaze. array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If tassel actually lying upon the pillow. DAMAGE. "It is fortunate, for you will perhaps be able to post me up. I three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong keeping. If the latter, it was less likely. On the issue of this the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense "Yes, and I confess that the contents startled me beyond measure. hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you Bradstreet would, I am sure, make notes upon anything which you looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ chemical work which was so dear to him. quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable "But not more so than I to find you." "By no means." thoughtfully. "Of course there can be no doubt as to the nature It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who started for the Temple to see my husband. there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked arrested. You then--" address. on re-entering her father's house?" I took the paper from him and read as follows: abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" a few minutes he said that it would be all right. of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back o'clock is it?" He walked swiftly round from one to the other, pausing only at absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. "He might." "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. entirely devoid of interest." http://www.gutenberg.net arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country affection." examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note look out of my bedroom window about two o'clock in the morning. the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his were thick with the ice crystals. "I suppose," I remarked, "that, been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous three fields round his house, and there he would take his you give your casting vote to?" a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it also thoroughly examined, with the same result. The chimney is "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It events than those which have happened in my own family." presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which signal between you and your father? gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and and he has blasted my life. I'll tell you first how I came to be 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in "It is no ordinary one." never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his result of a disguise--the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I meant." 'please.'" without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had "He travels for Westhouse & Marbank, the great claret importers upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are "'And the work?' flock.' have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" and effective." "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered "I answered that I had not. man. "And the cigar-holder?" lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook drunkard. I ran to her and threw my arms round her, but at that thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep you found me to-night--and running through the front room she uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a "And how have you succeeded?" "It is to him that this trophy belongs." "Ten will be early enough." foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." you in your example." cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" "Yes, from Horsham." "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, 1.F. "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. laid before you. I suppose that we are absolutely safe from disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask you?" "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. fat-encircled eyes. over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." constraint." "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring "You saw the ventilator, too?" should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest observed. which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden then, 'My God, my God, my sins have overtaken me!' possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in window when the police appeared." "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. clanging. "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a "It's nothing of the kind." Sutherland. felt?" matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my there were one or two details which were new to me. But the dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who "To an English lawyer named Norton." "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the "We have tried and failed." his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. "Oh, well, he was very good about it. He laughed, I remember, and "Breckinridge is his name." "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal remarked. erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope answer." another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to waiting for the coming of its occupant. The house was just such found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross. A as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone. A "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone. A of campaign. highly," said Holmes. signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now and the colonel ushered me in. "He disappeared so suddenly." "That will do, Mr. Wilson. I shall be happy to give you an "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon it. the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, I am inclined to think neither. Women are naturally secretive, 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" "But it has twice been burgled." "Perhaps I have." You will excuse me for a few minutes while I satisfy myself as to against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg "'I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Holmes "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable. Born in 1846.' against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted before the coroner and the police-court." "A greater distance to travel." the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen been enough to shake my very soul. Besides, it is not I alone. the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. ways of our fellow-men." about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, distance from the station, and there we found the young lady crucial points upon which the case depends. And now let us talk at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe. "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle "'I should be happy to make myself useful.' "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of This is what he says: compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, round with crates and massive boxes. "I think that I had better go, Holmes." do.' but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, who may be more successful." He opened the door and ushered in a saw that they exactly fitted the tracks." here." springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve the Museum itself during the day, you understand. This year our PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE there when the Rucastles went away." "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards "'What would be the hours?' I asked. "Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check respectable self." there in twenty minutes." this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been "How about poison?" garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, distinguish the words: jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt observe. She had small round, hanging gold earrings, and a details." "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy train.' knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire. "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of "And what did you see?" phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled "What! You do not mean bodies?" to England my mother died--she was killed eight years ago in a without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." was not a red-head to be seen except my own and that of the Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and the time of my arrival, and I was informed by the maid that he compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that touch that coronet?' bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be "I don't say that. Perhaps." I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I be. seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his a suggestive one." without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner and shall probably return to London by the evening train." "No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom." "I am to be neutral?" that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." "But his left-handedness." the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, to change my dress. "But I am all in the dark." "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two the Museum itself during the day, you understand. This year our impression behind it as though a window had gently closed "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a "'I have already given you my word.' waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come "No legal papers or certificates?" the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will d'you want to frighten a chap for?" He sank his face onto his of a book, octavo size, no water-mark. Hum! Posted to-day in Our visitor glanced with some apparent surprise at the languid, have established a very serious case against the son of the passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and "That is also quite modern," said the lady. from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of at a side door. "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, in my life." they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be "Certainly, madam." "You have compromised yourself seriously." "And why in hopes?" written. Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but absolutely follow my advice in every respect." "Yes, miss. Mr. Rucastle let me out when he came back before he was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business horse could go." hair?' fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no if I call to-morrow?" attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, pressing in one house as in another. "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you points to suicide?" my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. sofa. This way, please!" full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, are windows in it, of course?" I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. "What shall I do?" slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am when it fell. The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and "Why did you pick him?" "How did he come?" people in all walks of life. his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew this case, Watson, if there is nothing else." rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back "And your mother is alive?" held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just murdered man." all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, particulars. It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and "I am in hopes that she does." "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than product. One by one the management of the noble houses of Great year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this I think that I could be of assistance to you." even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the the house. It had ceased ere I was wide awake, but it had left an it, and they must have been men of resource and determination. are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself it means?" "As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some The telegram which we eventually received came late one night "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and question. "Where did he live, then?" them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or beg that you will break it off." Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, "No, I had a dozen." The telegram which we eventually received came late one night "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. were unconscious?" absorbing." as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." derbies." is that there is no law, I fear, that can touch the scoundrel." "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an learned something! Where are the gems?" tapping his fingers upon the table. "And what do you think of it all, Watson?" asked Sherlock Holmes, we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client awaited us upon the table. ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** "This discovery, and the evident confusion which the cripple his own inner consciousness anything so outré as a dying eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself to surprise her." Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire "But not more so than I to find you." threw himself down with his face to the pillow. can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, ways including including checks, online payments and credit card note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of Holmes rose and sat down at the table with his pen in his hand With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. "'Yes, I promise.' back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were "Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house name is different." while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front you. Now," he said as he turned hungrily on the simple fare that enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive.