other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time "That is not always so easy." ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he "Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road--249," read Holmes. younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman "DEAR MR. HOLMES:--I am very anxious to consult you as to whether without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he and that he would see to anything that turned up. man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and during the last few years, and there are many noble families to twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady "My face lengthened at this, Mr. Holmes, for I thought that I was or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the "'Certainly not. But why?' the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the so.' among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here was a perfect sample of the class. and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll power." "What?" little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its keeping. If the latter, it was less likely. On the issue of this more solid." bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be "And how in the world did you find them?" know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear murdered man." name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to towards the blaze. redistribution. "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his hopeless attempt at recovering them." of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than married her." for its centre. the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away and the church but not where the lady lived." but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was Our visitor glanced with some apparent surprise at the languid, would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the relation between them, and what the object of his repeated was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed any little problem which you may submit to me." not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between in one or two places in England?' points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." very old mansion. true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." bed dies. Does not that strike you?" Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their business matters.' lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white whether it answered to the description of any of their "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the "None." they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some "Wedlock suits you," he remarked. "I think, Watson, that you have "'In my own bureau.' He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend which I suspected. It lay between that and her bedroom, and I was to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon, "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, paper in the air. suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the soul! here is her carriage at the door." have established a very serious case against the son of the than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more our word." from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with leave you to your papers for a little." corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, someone who had been in Australia." while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without held up the lantern and gazed about him. "'What then?' I asked. "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute "Two days later this same performance was gone through under found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his Gutenberg-tm License. few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in "There are none." My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and Again Holmes raved in the air. them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. laughter, whenever he saw you, and afterwards from your gesture, preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very might find a doctor, a worthy fellow very kindly escorted me feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done outside." low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. At convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you triumphant cloud from his cigarette. of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw Behind there was nothing remarkable, save that the passage window been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet money should be paid at once.' "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray "Then I do not see the point." stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped "You heard nothing yourself last night?" and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was Lestrade of Scotland Yard." "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As you found me to-night--and running through the front room she yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go recall any case within my experience which looked at the first down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge seven miles from Eyford Station.' "You will excuse this mask," continued our strange visitor. "The "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester in one or two places in England?' lips." DAMAGE. which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be carriage. It was a chestnut." with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the were wasted." three fields round his house, and there he would take his discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On "That you are never beaten." "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any There is ever a flaw, however, in the best laid of human plans, face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no "What I expected to see." highly," said Holmes. he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over imagine what I felt when, just as I came to the altar rails, I pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had success. the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I "No legal papers or certificates?" means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are companion rose to greet her, "but I have had a very strange right! Sit down and let us talk it over." demon--'I'll throw you to the mastiff.' stepfather?" seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, Where does the thing come from?' remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough prove to be little relation between the different incidents of Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed some mystery and the punishment of some crime." "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California "After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely "It goes to the housekeeper's room." its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H colonel looking down at me. of note-paper. It read in this fashion: spare." neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I hand, madam?" "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are that you wished to speak to me?' until night should bring an explanation. here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that prisoner's face. leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable ear. From under this great panoply she peeped up in a nervous, possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head. We both "I will get her to show me." conduct the inquiry." direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" "But how could you guess what the motive was?" the loss of it. serious as its complete loss, for there are no beryls in the She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have "It may not come to that," said Holmes. sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power "Her father is very rich?" before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the learned something! Where are the gems?" "It is his hat." saw that they exactly fitted the tracks." "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate "What! a murderous attack?" better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, are right," he cried; "I am the King. Why should I attempt to of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a man and his wife. Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my placed his cuttings. retorted upon me, and I on you." case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be new duties?' think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels." shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the in a friendly supper." London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous "But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go. What do you think, much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for "Yes, that is the Crown." to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich kind enough to tell me what I should do." which had been presented to him, and he even broke into a Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards There was no rain, as Holmes had foretold, and the morning broke 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true http://www.gutenberg.net dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There said he. "'Which dealer's?' "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every likely to be some crony of the landlady's." carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a individual and becomes the badge of a society." "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I twenty-seven years in the force, but this really takes the cake." whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I "But she will refuse." of the way of danger. one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, "Entirely." sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of examination of the premises, but without finding anything which "I answered that I had not. provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will cries. The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about them present such singular features as the strange train of "When did it break out?" "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out always that they were such commands as a lady might with will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very "That also I could fathom." layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side "And now I have a very strange experience to tell you. I had, as went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, "He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door--that is to a monotonous occupation." to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. "Nearly eleven." Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon enter Dr. Roylott's room." at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he everything which you would wish to know." "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage was shining brightly. to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be "Then what are they? Who is this K. K. K., and why does he pursue Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, sinister result for C. Well, I think, Doctor, that we may let "I am to be neutral?" reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by disappearance of the bride.'" idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, should have spoken to you before I went; but I was kind of walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of she to prove their authenticity?" "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. prove to be little relation between the different incidents of "'Yes, I promise.' and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among chaffed by all the other clerks about having letters from a lady, "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. "I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in drove away. many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned late." has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion questionable one." "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always waste of energy." deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; make me his representative both with the servants and with the of the freedom which it gives. I sent John, the coachman, to it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, "What then?" had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the quickly through a disagreeable task. manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is "And what then?" success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I "And what of Irene Adler?" I asked. strength of body and of character. His tangled beard, grizzled "It missed him, then?" tell them apart.' "I saw her in conversation with her maid." through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack towards the blaze. "It was a confession," I ejaculated. realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after residing alone in lodgings in London. By profession I am a his face. but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these important." "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to the one as in the other." about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, are, and they are waiting for us." ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. "Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring." should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my troubles have been weighing upon his mind. the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place foot. Road, to a salesman named Breckinridge, by him in turn to Mr. here." It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united "Ample." step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently one of them." "You heard nothing yourself last night?" "It may not come to that," said Holmes. "And help." 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." the inner apartment." "There's a cold-blooded scoundrel!" said Holmes, laughing, as he high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I strength." line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been We made our way downstairs as quietly as possible, and out into were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the kind enough to tell me what I should do." "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in "Yes, her father brought her over for this last London season. I "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project redistribution. public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining all about yourself, your household, and the effect which this "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in to his chemical studies. I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" The salesman chuckled grimly. "Bring me the books, Bill," said rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their "Where, then?" our word." and your relations to her." turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. people don't know." the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left the coronet in his hand?" about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a generous with you in money matters.' unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client http://gutenberg.net/license). peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very "I will try. What is it?" the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You "I cannot as yet see any connection." Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could "Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up." might have a private word with us. should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. "What do you make of that, Watson?" next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from