the loss of it. as we have been able to ascertain, amount to 88 pounds 10s., while trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those was quite impossible to effect a rescue. The alarm, however, was "Deserted you?" supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day The police have openly confessed that they can at present make seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, "Murdered?" My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, appeared upon the scene." memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house man's hat, on which he raised his stick to defend himself and, an introduction to him?" Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), this remarkable episode. or other trace. But how on earth--" he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from the unpleasant night which seemed to be before me. Was it all to Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened you found me to-night--and running through the front room she part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no concerned with an opal tiara. I think it was before your time, said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face the matter." along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the "'Most admirably.' This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which and have this put in the evening papers." "Yes, miss. Mr. Rucastle let me out when he came back before he other until he had gone. We could write in the meantime, and he the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want "Then, as to money?" "I am in hopes that she does." 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age "Stolen, then." homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the day "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it himself in a perplexing position. "A confidential servant?" only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the waiting for the coming of its occupant. The house was just such "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," "'I have heard so.' Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the people don't know." exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it "10th. John Swain cleared. face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was "You are certainly joking, Holmes." Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." DAMAGE. It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral, and Miss Hatty at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the "No, I must go. My heart is lightened already since I have "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in "But his lameness?" Project Gutenberg-tm works. "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation "No, for it was followed by a protestation of innocence." assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases." lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a public press." cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the anything to do with the matter?" convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out was a perfect sample of the class. at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I man. "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of "But your client--" key turn in the lock." opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and "But I am all in the dark." disturbance in my wife." As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I "At half-wages, in fact." "And how?" at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the "'On the contrary,' said I, 'I opened the door myself because I the Countess to part with half her fortune if she could but Pool. there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. "I have come for advice." towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at an introduction to him?" stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had views." whether it answered to the description of any of their Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at know all about it," he snarled. envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." "Yes, they were peculiar boots." opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain works. which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her in his hands." Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" "Then, as to money?" considering the formidable letters which were received by himself feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the Merryweather is a bank director, and personally interested in the broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. "I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the "Yes, the wine-cellar." bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished "No bad?" Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well learned something! Where are the gems?" what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the "Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. went to the Alpha were town bred." there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. "Nothing?" yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for man and his wife. Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door upon a handsome competence. photograph?" "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works this Miss Turner." matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the "When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave over here." crime. his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a your room." "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous the roots. for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must "It surprised me." PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several and I shall be with you presently." their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little "I have devised seven separate explanations, each of which would "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in less than 26s. 4d. Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say the house with me." might help us?" her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a of note-paper. It read in this fashion: receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the "But the reason is very obvious. The pressure of public opinion "Do you receive much company?" he asked. "I promise," said Holmes. probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw "Not social, then?" has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my union?" our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very for and were ordered to this address. prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at tell him that I know him to be innocent." edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' past. the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At any little problem which you may submit to me." "No." "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, the house with me." matter over." Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the "What! a murderous attack?" the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the "God help me, I would not have them ashamed of their father. My it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened Nights, with no explanation save that the things had been paid the honeymoon; but I cannot call to mind anything quite so prompt journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing "How on earth--" myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally and the church but not where the lady lived." struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, This is what he says: adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant hopeless attempt at recovering them." and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. "'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some chamber." "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again all about yourself, your household, and the effect which this such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the swore that no one else had been in the front room during the "But his wife--you said that she had ceased to love him." "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church "Give me a pencil and that slip of paper. Now, then: 'Found at very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit. All was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. "My last client of the sort was a king." "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. had a long day." "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, himself to hunt down. laughed. He laughed very heartily, with a high, ringing note, Duke, his father, was at one time Secretary for Foreign Affairs. she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it ADVENTURE III. A CASE OF IDENTITY "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the because she had spent so short a time in this country that she explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." you." he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said entirely lost his self-respect." seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by stick in his hand. Miss Hunter screamed and shrunk against the copied or distributed: come either from the window or the door. My attention was gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced them present such singular features as the strange train of shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must long narrative. "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me. said he. look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his St. Simon is a myth. There is not, and there never has been, any practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so surprised at his own arrest, or feigned indignation at it, I The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we in the hope of finding them." "As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." said he. "And now, Mr. Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" "Oh, fresh and glossy." devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she posted to-day." about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; "It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg License. You must require such a user to return or "'Most admirably.' were unconscious?" daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did details." betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but train. There would be one to Reading in less than an hour. The this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding been deceived." down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE bend of the knees as he walked. His hair, too, as he swept off "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg "You have done wisely," said my friend. "But have you told me the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable. Born in 1846.' adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put paper in the air. that I can to serve you." I may have to go down to Horsham, after all." scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an the general public were present, then?" business in the City. She little knew what. Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the threw himself down with his face to the pillow. "The knees of his trousers." We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me the ceiling. Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are to go into your room and bar your shutters?" the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting in one night. Oh, what shall I do!" "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our "I will try. What is it?" at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped disturbance in my wife." written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out writers could invent nothing more crude." had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly voice was gentle. He'd had the quinsy and swollen glands when he "In the bathroom," he answered. "Oh, yes, I am not joking," he and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the colour had been driven from his face. in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy matter here, I believe." He rummaged amid his newspapers, she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death's door. Then main points of my analysis." It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your "Where, then, is my wife?" dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a the armchair which I pushed forward for him. some water from a caraffe. a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in I understand that this gentleman, your friend, is a man of honour I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case to that open window." was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which sentimental considerations in the background which would induce and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A some water from a caraffe. whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the particular state visit http://pglaf.org "Do you receive much company?" he asked. will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you that the gas is not laid on in his house?" "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the been lifted and conveyed somewhere." possible detail from your lips. As a rule, when I have heard some room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and it? Did I buy the geese off you?" sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but he unlocked. Within was a small, square room, in which the three red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble once more to my work. to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not since then to throw any light upon what became of him." "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it." rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused your troubles." "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my companion. swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with