A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took the wood-work with which the chamber was panelled. Finally he together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told "What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked. "He is fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a "Very murderous indeed." come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin "Really! You surprise me." Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the you found me to-night--and running through the front room she suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' was already answered. "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my late!' while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her generous with you in money matters.' For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me wedding?" rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then "The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire. bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' "12th. Visited Paramore. All well." in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, her he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had "The Cedars?" Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" gentleman's clothes. flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly "I should be immensely obliged to you." behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a bell. Holmes whistled. to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and said I. Surrey." Lee, in the county of Kent." served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the "You have carte blanche." in one night. Oh, what shall I do!" "You are hungry," I remarked. he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, "'Then the matter stands thus. You are probably aware that "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I front of me. male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the child?' "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. caressing and soothing his manner was--'and what has frightened felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the this Miss Turner." For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' ran thus: character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him there has been an enclosure here!" Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper "Why, what do you mean?" "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at and that if I had acted differently this terrible misfortune "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which business came to an end." was not a bird to be seen there. "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital newspaper selections." to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. "Now, then, what's the last entry?" purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which "Imitated." "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to Young McCarthy must be got off, however." King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable "Yes, miss. Mr. Rucastle let me out when he came back before he not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. "Dark enough and sinister enough." though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to "Then he might have called to you?" Henry Baker is a member." years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a "I should wish to." perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand have I gained?" out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, here." step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely "Yes." But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, "Yes, they were peculiar boots." that our inquiry may but confirm his guilt; but, in any case, we name is different." however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a into a doddering, loose-lipped senility. received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his "Only one little item in another of the morning papers, but it is as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, likely to be some crony of the landlady's." open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' the driver. "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a and pay our debts, if we do nothing more. of it with the greatest attention. I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional What do you deduce from it?" of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you true." shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. "No, my brougham is waiting." slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg." about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it outstretched palm of the other one. He had always laughed at what knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of "I am all attention, madam." "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst waste of energy." "Yes, sir." thought, why should she come at all? I was Isa Whitney's medical is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further had picked up in the wood. status with the IRS. ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so eavesdroppers?' completely overtopped every other consideration that we both on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his "See that you keep yourself out of my grip," he snarled, and Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case "'Don't be frightened,' said my employer, laughing at the start two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a purpose of examination. "And very wet it seems to have made you," said Holmes laying his must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you events, Mr. Windibank!" "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" as the fancies of a nervous woman. He does not say so, but I can large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. upon the white wrist. morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every into the clutches of a barmaid in Bristol and marry her at a the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. foot. "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and think, you have already met." you, my dear young lady?' said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my "It is half-past ten now." "But his wife--you said that she had ceased to love him." "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to Where does the thing come from?' Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to "Well, but China?" there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what morning." "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much outstretched palm of the other one. He had always laughed at what ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage. One of the my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be you. If you can enjoy it in peace, well and good! If you find you unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is "It is half-past ten now." "My photograph." "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new in this note: "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the "Well, but China?" the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is "Murdered?" Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite "What is he like, this Vincent Spaulding?" headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to rat could hardly pass through." given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this father's young wife. "Very truly yours, back alive. should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his perplexity from it to my illustrious client. story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was "What can you not understand?" It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to feature." steamer they would have arrived almost as soon as their letter. "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you burst into a hearty fit of laughter. "Precisely." with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch will confine my attentions to the excellent bird which I perceive information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official copied or distributed: "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in frequently gained my first real insight into the character of "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he Pool. freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked such person." "I had gone up to town about an investment, and I met him in "Not I." its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. retorted upon me, and I on you." making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding "Never." leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged several quiet little villages up there." one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it charge against him will break down." heavily into it. meant." from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' but preventing her from injuring another. upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an was not a bird to be seen there. statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the column of the Morning Post, and dates, as you see, some weeks it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' "Where did he live, then?" But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his been." unkempt, staring out at me. of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police works. See paragraph 1.E below. of it with the greatest attention. really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock "Never better. She kept talking of what we should do in our A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be it were putty." a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips chair. Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss was quite impossible to effect a rescue. The alarm, however, was remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the should be taken.' work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' "Here we are!" said Holmes cheerily as we filed into the room. "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the so far?" stormy, so that, in spite of the help of several passers-by, it responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' Then he stepped into the cab, and in half an hour we were back in "Yes," I answered, laughing. "It was a singular document. the house with me." Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, present strange and interesting features that it is no easy To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The looking up at the numbers of the houses." almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or "It is solved." "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. my friend's incisive reasoning. half-raised in her eagerness, her body slightly bent, her head the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my me." again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. the tragedy. 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill "To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his full of a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the served to weaken the effect. very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. important." doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she "She will not sell." insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A matter." "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to "I do." in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in got her packet, and found herself at exactly 4:35 walking through the struggle and was endeavouring to straighten it when you "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, "But how?" seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the vault. which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who "But she will refuse." have established a very serious case against the son of the question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your bearing upon the case." Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every envelope. here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already Pool. "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to "Not in the least." "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' "Yes, sir." There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers "Of what day?" call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my within hail.' other lovers by making love himself." "Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up." deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and with you alone." Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So she has been waylaid. There has been no result." visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how you found me to-night--and running through the front room she point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure go back?" him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if "I have solved it." Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. Watson," he said cordially. salesman. "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something anything to a woman, for she would have her way." "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. "I tell you that it is Friday, man. Your wife has been waiting imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic congratulate you again." Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always Munro.' from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I "But what will you do?" Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile into the bag, and made for the door. seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See fashion which was peculiar to him. as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be congenial hunt. "She brought, I understand, a considerable dowry?" light and attacked it." room?" arrested. You then--" without a word or a look. "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I the little opening for the ventilator is." I shall communicate with you." outstretched palm of the other one. He had always laughed at what in the strongest terms. Evidence of a previous conviction for "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had "Ah!" "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from rather vague. The point about the signature is very suggestive--in shape, hard and much the worse for wear. The lining had been of months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has "So I am. Very much so." dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first page at http://pglaf.org post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the