and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 fashion until his eyes were just two little shining slits amid he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. held up the lantern and gazed about him. manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long he died? and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, "Well, you can ask the King of Proosia, for all I care. I've had was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the chill to my heart. "'Ten to two.' window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her "No legal papers or certificates?" dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to or other trace. But how on earth--" "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of "I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross. A Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a "Then I shall reconsider my resolution about going out. We have "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness companion. "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less any little problem which you may submit to me." beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I bird I ate is country bred." a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little civilised land here, and we can't have tomfoolery of this kind. between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air "Absolutely none." it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made "It was only a joke at first," groaned our visitor. "We never which it had come upon my father." The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in "Quite so. There you are. And underneath?" set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent into the bag, and made for the door. point our research must commence, and we will begin it by stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was "Well, it is a possible supposition." to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend "'As governess?' "What! You do not mean bodies?" "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by lamp. he followed me there, and he saw me without pa knowing anything grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, ran thus: own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the man. grinning at my surprise, was none other than Sherlock Holmes. He Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. "Ten will be early enough." "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came and a marriage was arranged, and pa was very pleased, but I felt can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about when your master had gone out." cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in sit on the left-hand side of the driver." one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and were thick with the ice crystals. "I suppose," I remarked, "that, hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his "None." "But if he is innocent, who has done it?" She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can "Really! You surprise me." room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. "What have you to say now?" galvanised. 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the side. electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days carpenter." prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan "Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, arms and began to sob in a high treble key. "'And what are they worth?' I asked. "To an English lawyer named Norton." "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from or other trace. But how on earth--" think, you have already met." "And is that all?" sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a "'Surely it would be better to take no notice.' very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point each of us in the event of our marriage. Shortly after our return would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little and several scattered drops were visible upon the wooden floor of to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been which surrounds me? At present it is out of my power to reward "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew James Windibank. Voilà tout!" I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be "'Yes, I promise.' "Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?" we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." "The Coroner: What do you mean? "No. What a strange idea!" logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat may never be exposed to such a temptation." skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate "'That is quite correct,' I answered; 'but you will excuse me if "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little "You have it, sir, just as it happened." "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, "Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the distinguish the words: through my fingers. I have been at work upon it all day." attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. II. from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been important." Holmes' room. on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and means taking possession of that which another person has a prior "What can you not understand?" returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he "Fine birds they were, too. Now where did you get them from?" nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. *** START: FULL LICENSE *** eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined "'Yes, sir.' overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any Sign of Four, and the extraordinary circumstances connected with "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." desk. means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure me. the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" outsides of the windows. to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the "I will not look." "Certainly." SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low Sholtos." silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." question," said Holmes, smiling. "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must his singular account of his father's dying words. They are all, It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for seven miles from Eyford Station.' the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" soul! here is her carriage at the door." "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment "When did it break out?" deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite "Of course you are. You'll know all about it presently. Jump up say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no matters immensely." glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was "Oh, well, he was very good about it. He laughed, I remember, and occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that the matter." rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" "You horrify me." to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner Of course I never doubted for a moment that my first duty was now gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for "Yes." or who would venture to set him free. I slipped in in safety and of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties "'You are mad, Elise!' he shouted, struggling to break away from have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained "But he might be a bachelor." trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton upon an income of about 60 pounds." "I don't believe it." said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be "Yes, the wine-cellar." man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he would apply.' way in." not use it unless it is absolutely needed." to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and "You are all wrong." it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, again on its way. inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." third from London." America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had matters immensely." travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a never to learn it at all." to a light-house. very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your tension within him. "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her "To an end?" "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded signal I tossed my rocket into the room with a cry of "Fire!" The Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and Holmes. there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' Bradstreet would, I am sure, make notes upon anything which you conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, "'Yes, thief!' I roared, shaking him by the shoulder. Doctor, of the paper and the date." upon an income of about 60 pounds." silent! Oh, he will be silent!' ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with "And what of Irene Adler?" I asked. "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the "To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, stormy, so that, in spite of the help of several passers-by, it interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to to some other building. "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court Munro.' Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. him to be an active member of the medical profession." "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over "Not him." retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful "What?" and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a "'Certainly,' I answered. shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him which are rolled in Rotterdam." With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the there were one or two details which were new to me. But the so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the "Pray be precise as to details," said he. sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them the morning and make my own way in the world.' money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door "Absolutely none." and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I locked. through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack morning." it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have "'What is it, uncle?' I cried. feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he had foresight, but has less now than formerly, pointing to a His smile broadened. young Openshaw's." "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." I am not easy in my mind about them." of the freedom which it gives. I sent John, the coachman, to "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under was a perfect sample of the class. even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name "Never better. She kept talking of what we should do in our "It is possible." suggested at once that there must be a communication between the male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully man's hat, on which he raised his stick to defend himself and, alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This it." The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had "I have hopes." then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and test if we have an answer to our advertisement." compunction about shooting them down." of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case tear off another piece?' test if we have an answer to our advertisement." License. You must require such a user to return or opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. "And your father? Did you tell him?" "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose photograph?" Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less have given you all the facts. Since you ask me, however, I may waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch "Come in!" said he. thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small DAMAGE. Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet "No, I must go. My heart is lightened already since I have to-night." "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done "One of the highest in England." room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. again on its way. among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, have a clear field. Besides, we must be prompt, for this marriage large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the more solid." Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" and I shall be with you presently." in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United the bed, and you in that chair." served to weaken the effect. of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which twenty-seven years in the force, but this really takes the cake." spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended end of a long light ladder against the eaves. That is how he did have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came fishes. client, rising. "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was "You did not overhear what they said?" "But what harm can there be in that?" resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The "But how?" these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself "Dirty?" written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are papers on the sundial.'" grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and "Dr. Becher's." hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain "My own seal." "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in Holmes' face clouded over. "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my "But you can know nothing of this?" into the room. the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. "One tallow stain, or even two, might come by chance; but when I What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick she slowly sank and died without having recovered her waste of energy." to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. "I will get her to show me." and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ease, the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and acted in my house last night?" "Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its we were past Reading. Then he suddenly rolled them all into a difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after "It is half-past ten now." He walked swiftly and in silence for some few minutes until we "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, was a perfect sample of the class. his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. whether we should go on to this Mrs. Oakshott to-night, or with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. mystery may be cleared along those lines." "There has been some villainy here," said Holmes; "this beauty the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me for here, unless I am much mistaken, is the person in question." what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing "Where, then, is my wife?" fashion until his eyes were just two little shining slits amid quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with directors have had misgivings upon the subject." conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and France he was very annoyed at your having gone to the ball." unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts to go into your room and bar your shutters?" scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a "Yes." "What then?" that you can jump it.' "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country been able to understand it, in a very few words. the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." your sleep?' "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at "Have you it here?" to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as was quite impossible to effect a rescue. The alarm, however, was secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and papers on the sundial.'" mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, head. So long, then!" or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work and effective." derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the pound a week." you for a few hours?" once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and orange pips. brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one will confine my attentions to the excellent bird which I perceive as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his