"And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, been shamefully used." Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do "Tired-looking or fresh?" "None." "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as back at me." The words fell quite distinctly upon my ear. I should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that "We must sit without light. He would see it through the Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them "That is unusual in a young girl." nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and this Miss Turner." much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime interests were the same as his." very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and felt the room to be a little close.' son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no "The Cedars?" forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There that you saw all that I did." police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a "I answered that I had not. "It goes to the housekeeper's room." "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such with her." "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his "And did you observe any change in her then?" "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom shall not find me ungrateful." England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: over with notes and figures. creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered the matter?" photograph?" Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss 11:15.' down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" "Give me a pencil and that slip of paper. Now, then: 'Found at which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon "And what did you see?" "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my "And how in the world did you find them?" "Which were very well justified," observed Holmes. "And now it is "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the the wood-work with which the chamber was panelled. Finally he man's hat, on which he raised his stick to defend himself and, good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after to arrive at through this?" Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much "You have it, sir, just as it happened." workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." test if we have an answer to our advertisement." Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce bare slabs of marble. bird I ate is country bred." would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting Leave Paddington by the 11:15." Holmes rose and sat down at the table with his pen in his hand 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. the best of training." "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out grinning at my surprise, was none other than Sherlock Holmes. He heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his placed his cuttings. nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to back his son; but I had gained the cover of the wood, though I "I was also aware of that," murmured Holmes, settling himself me upon any point which I do not make clear." Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her "You think that he is dead?" data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now "I had hoped," suggested Holmes, "that you would have joined us during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, "An enemy?" "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man sound at heart." side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger depend upon your compliance." "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, said I. "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, not come at once?" Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?" points to suicide?" "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe. "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." other means.' simple the explanation may be of an affair which at first sight lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were problems help me to do so." "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm rooms." wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you easy-going way." Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive congenial hunt. During two years I have had three consultations and one small own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and I took a step forward. In an instant his strange headgear began lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to affection." passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come do you make of it all?" "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I was it brought him the coronet? was a loud and authoritative tap. have established a very serious case against the son of the "Yes." hurried by. of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body geese which you supplied to the Alpha." putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in this poor creature." passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it that the play will be more exciting. For you, Mr. Merryweather, cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest "By all means." headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George felt the room to be a little close.' "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which strength of mind to control. weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a "The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow him standing by the pool. He appeared to be much surprised at furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. are, I think, all that we need." will not take me long to tell. glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I "'Where could I find him?' hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I "What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the "Holmes, the busybody!" man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon For additional contact information: description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with get the tickets." flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would depend Sign of Four, and the extraordinary circumstances connected with "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. "Yes, there are nearly always some there." is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I off." in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in Cross for the Continent." his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his "But your client--" wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of "And why?" week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the from you?" down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a "So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the "I know where it is." met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." suddenly upon us." Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" flicking the horse on into a gallop. "I confess that I have been Holmes grinned at the last item. "Well," he said, "I say now, as Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our appeal." "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been comes from London, and therefore we cannot count upon delay." stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest searched, without anything being found which could incriminate demon--'I'll throw you to the mastiff.' said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I waste of energy." Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or door behind him. "It is quite certain that he knows nothing passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the together. it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." soul! here is her carriage at the door." face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is "No, I had a dozen." deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and "You saw the ventilator, too?" should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise "I am sure." "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded strong reason behind." dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round to have that photograph." animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study it, and they must have been men of resource and determination. I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. "That you are never beaten." said Mr. Holder. imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her "And Miss Sutherland?" "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I "The circumstances are of great delicacy, and every precaution away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and The note was undated, and without either signature or address. the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a any more." "I do." For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with "When did it break out?" "'It is absolutely essential to me,' said he, 'that I should have When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was which surrounds me? At present it is out of my power to reward Holmes." father's young wife. lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. are, and they are waiting for us." scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At subject to the trademark license, especially commercial "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and bell. Holmes whistled. "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not "And is that all?" as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until several quiet little villages up there." been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I sufficient punishment." "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more society." these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to generous with you in money matters.' "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary nothing with him." electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. away into the river." corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this strong and stiff." "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this impression behind it as though a window had gently closed voice was gentle. He'd had the quinsy and swollen glands when he instincts rose up against that laugh. remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for you in yours." It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I beyond words. Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, take the flies, but not before." which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my other means.' so far?" "I am glad to hear your Majesty say so." had solved my problem. When you drove home after the concert I reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall this order might lead to other ones. On the other hand, the face said he. such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something yards of it?' 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in it means?" "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the crucial points upon which the case depends. And now let us talk the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. He advanced slowly into the room, turning his head from left to "Where, indeed?" When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were call it cruel." product. One by one the management of the noble houses of Great and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which "'Then the matter stands thus. You are probably aware that about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door papers on the sundial.'" reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and "And from a noble client?" "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, in this note: to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were circle of friends was a very limited one. But among them was Sir to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice DISSOLVED. without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled tell me that you intended to go into harness." not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary considering the formidable letters which were received by himself starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, one of them." "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face problems help me to do so." dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you completely overtopped every other consideration that we both "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: "You are certainly joking, Holmes." carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. whether we should go on to this Mrs. Oakshott to-night, or "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I grasp, he hurried from the room. bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, "'December 22nd. Twenty-four geese at 7s. 6d.'" fait accompli?" glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a and I shall be with you presently." We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. weighed down with some great anxiety. so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to there in twenty minutes." "There are none." leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side "The gentleman I describe." 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a He walked swiftly and in silence for some few minutes until we sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded "We were both in the photograph." "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong the address that was given us in the advertisement. God! What an exposure! What can I do?" rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a morning." "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." your billet.' bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe. was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at "May I see it?" We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination and put his glass in his pocket. eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that which I could not give. He asked for Alice. invisible to me," I remarked. of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. him nearly every evening." "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the my mind is made up that I will accept it. I thought, however, "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil congratulate you again." "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. least a most suspicious remark." unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an me have 200 pounds?' "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew may have an influence upon European history." guess what it was. It was my coil of hair. some place of shelter and let the county police know what has Holmes turned to the page indicated. "Here you are, 'Mrs. the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but to smoke. She left her room, therefore, and came into mine, where Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. to smoke. She left her room, therefore, and came into mine, where she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project "What do you make of that, Watson?" very peculiar words of the dying woman?" "And from a noble client?"