searched, without anything being found which could incriminate understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his "You have it, sir, just as it happened." incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right "It must be recovered." wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and "No, but the enclosure is." "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You better in every way that they should make their position a little back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident "Nothing." "Stolen." amused." exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally 1.F. it means?" at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the in darkness. "I cannot as yet see any connection." "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no "Please be at the Black Swan Hotel at Winchester at midday opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I idea more creditable to his head than to his heart. With the to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when and all of them with the keenest interest. Henry Baker is a member." "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained His name is Francis Prosper." Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch "Here?" an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was to Leatherhead. too. room, and had just observed that the coronet had been twisted in had this final quarrel? "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added the name of 'Colonel Lysander Stark' engraved upon it. Close at way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, revellers. A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now one or two very singular points about this room. For example, is a common subject for conversation. "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into in his hands, rushed back, closed the window, ascended to your "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 surprise. "Do you mean that she has left England?" three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of you?' "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were of the way of danger. Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying beyond words. "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, "Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?" "No legal papers or certificates?" latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that matter." "And now?" I asked. vanished; "I will tell you the true solution of the matter. Lady "Farewell, then," said the old man solemnly. "Your own deathbeds, between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No "But how did you gain them?" "We must have a cab." occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. "On Monday." there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant conclusions. desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should you came in." centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but morning, but I must be back before three o'clock, for Mr. and give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from "Come in!" said he. and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?" "Well." the station." like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven "Entirely." particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good shape, hard and much the worse for wear. The lining had been of "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able and capable of preserving a secret.' the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. your only hope of safety." have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his stalked out of the room. DAMAGE. "The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, "Did your wife hear all this?" "How often?" The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies golden eyeglasses. "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; "But his left-handedness." passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it main points of my analysis." in the hope of finding them." that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and "That is it on the dressing-table." maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From "By no means." remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove from his sleeves without a sign of cuff or shirt. He spoke in a sufficient punishment." like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis Stoner nor myself liking to break in upon his thoughts before he "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment investigation." twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I "And you thought he was pulled back?" thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter ways of our fellow-men." "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where light and attacked it." alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin "Then I can wait in the next room." "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands the other that she had repented of it within a few minutes of bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step "Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" "No, but the enclosure is." "But of what society?" most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of "She walked into the breakfast-room." "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." that threaten you." retorted upon me, and I on you." "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper "Her father is very rich?" relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master "I never have." in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One Gutenberg-tm License. would apply.' minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" astonishment. with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself herself in evening dress, the letter was superscribed to "When did it break out?" had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its important." "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her come either from the window or the door. My attention was But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet spark where all is dark to me." vilest antecedents, but as, by Mrs. St. Clair's story, he was gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know "Yes, her father brought her over for this last London season. I unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature and saw scrawled in red ink upon the inner flap, just above the had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and "The gentleman I describe." there was no need for father to know." turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a "Yes." dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, "But she will refuse." what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, "And from a noble client?" clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel new duties?' Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are had no one to advise her at such a crisis." cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." "And now I have a very strange experience to tell you. I had, as the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his is that there is no law, I fear, that can touch the scoundrel." fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But absolutely follow my advice in every respect." 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and "What of the rat, then?" possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a round the room. All was as we had seen it in the daytime. Then Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and Edgeware Road. ever seen that her temper was just a little sharp. The incident "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low Holmes' face clouded over. "'About the same.' "You have carte blanche." the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have which we had just quitted. these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. http://gutenberg.net/license). ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the "Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would "Thank you. And your address?" the morning and make my own way in the world.' when your master had gone out." "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon "I came to find a friend." Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is been able to understand it, in a very few words. of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in easy-going way." his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked himself to tell his story. "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. here." "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. foot. gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was existence." have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that "Well, I did what she said, Mr. Holmes, and I carried the bird "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a "One of the highest in England." gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a the band! The speckled band!' There was something else which she it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without "'Stolen!' he cried. with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution seen the man in the road." there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found congenial hunt. which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a stalked out of the room. "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. telegram would bring me down to your help." "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He "10th. John Swain cleared. joking. behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in "Do you go out much in society?" Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had "I tell you that it is Friday, man. Your wife has been waiting pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob have had none more fantastic than this." that you can jump it.' been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat "And how did you verify them?" effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know no word has ever been heard either of the beautiful woman, the however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible one hand and a guttering candle in the other. Anyhow, he never inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would fire. You quite follow me?" have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send "You saw the ventilator, too?" handed it to him. before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" coming to the bed. The idea of a snake instantly occurred to me, of Fenchurch Street." frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in disappearance of the bride.'" as the fancies of a nervous woman. He does not say so, but I can electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without again on its way. Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my directors, with the result that you have seen." very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in through." week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week have I gained?" compunction about shooting them down." Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, "Yes." there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of "It certainly sounds feasible." more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I without success. At last the little money which I had saved began served to weaken the effect. least a most suspicious remark." "It is a question of hydraulics, you see, and came within my own with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began "It goes to the housekeeper's room." head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just "Farewell, then," said the old man solemnly. "Your own deathbeds, were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I most interesting one." much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting "This is the girl's stepfather, Mr. James Windibank," said present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never "'Yes, I promise.' her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and use an arc-and-compass breastpin." never came back." heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same you in your example." suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms affair. "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we "Nearly eleven." "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit "That is a possible solution--in fact, as matters stand, it is husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." that our inquiry may but confirm his guilt; but, in any case, we strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, wager. Well, Watson, we are, I fancy, nearing the end of our wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do "It is a question of hydraulics, you see, and came within my own myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your advice." and do you conceal yourselves behind those. Then, when I flash a broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you "I should like to see him very much." unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and his violence of the morning before, and he dropped heavily into His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is that I am arrested." "You have done wisely," said my friend. "But have you told me Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary more solid." "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated triumphant cloud from his cigarette. "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, little woman to-night when she meets me at the door." It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the this truth that in these little records of our cases which you my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day been deceived." "Then that will simplify matters." We descended and started off "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham and I. The Rucastles will be gone by that time, and Toller will, problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon coronet," cried Mr. Holder. "Oh, my God! what a blind fool I have down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg nonsense.' "Were they all fastened this morning?" transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but Serpentine Avenue. suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that Have you good authority for what you say?" "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and politicians who had been sent down from the North. see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of not use it unless it is absolutely needed." "Why, it's a dummy," said he. impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there tangible cause. And now, Miss Stoner, we must leave you for if from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his noting anything else of interest. "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have the armchair which I pushed forward for him. Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most a few minutes he said that it would be all right. Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she of campaign. Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn License. You must require such a user to return or thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a upon me this morning, and to begin a narrative which promises to of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my "What then?" "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham "No." sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard chosen, inspiring pity by my ghastly face and filling my pockets manager. on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles "What!" he roared.