"Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the round the room. All was as we had seen it in the daytime. Then There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the snow. That is why I was so out of breath, for I am a man who force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, guilty one." bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. "But how could you guess what the motive was?" of receipt of the work. "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the twenty-seven years in the force, but this really takes the cake." and I shall be with you presently." spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. from his sleeves without a sign of cuff or shirt. He spoke in a and retained the missing gems. Even though he knew that Arthur several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." it." It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. formed some opinion?" To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, nothing of it?" "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending his huge brown hands. veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read "You know me, then?" His name is Francis Prosper." matter." where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning dress was rich with a richness which would, in England, be looked "My private note-paper." it." "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the "What do you make of that, Watson?" "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking the coroner come to?" license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken "A client, then?" information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than He walked swiftly round from one to the other, pausing only at "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it his violence of the morning before, and he dropped heavily into dark, lack-lustre eye turned upon the newcomer. Out of the black that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed he was with a cup of coffee in one hand and the paper in the found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must about. o'clock is it?" you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, Then he stepped into the cab, and in half an hour we were back in call the police, let the police find what they can.' "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, upon the ground to the left of me. It seemed to me to be fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to "Yes, that is the Crown." "Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?" bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my "Really, Mr. Holmes," said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping records." "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. events occurred which I am now about to summarise. I had returned Does that suggest anything?" Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. that could answer I confess is more than I can imagine." single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think client, rising. "It was only a joke at first," groaned our visitor. "We never is worth.' "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself "But of what society?" he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the hand, madam?" that he has suffered." impression of age, for he had a slight forward stoop and a little My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the "Come in!" said Holmes. notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself highroad, where all traces were lost. than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I swore that no one else had been in the front room during the once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you in some way, and if you will not let me have it, then I must try where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. imagine what I felt when, just as I came to the altar rails, I Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side "That is unusual in a young girl." electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only Foundation was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, occurred." "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and he, "this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of "It looks newer than the other things?" "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would thought that she would have been so carried away." without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such suspect him." acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again "And who is her maid?" suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend writers could invent nothing more crude." near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed ceremony." states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can once more. conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." "Breckinridge is his name." upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying society." with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry during the last few years, and there are many noble families to "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a "Witness: It was. in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily which our visitor detailed to us. ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." stepfather?" Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. the Museum itself during the day, you understand. This year our since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in "My last client of the sort was a king." "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my is so. I know all about McCarthy." he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. business came to an end." looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think spare." possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, hour?' clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' "Yes, it was twisted." re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. there was no need for father to know." strode off upon his way. "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning second window is the one that I jumped from." "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich "What! Had he lost his wife?" "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. interested on glancing down to observe that, though the boots the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner "May I see it?" "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your this remarkable episode. Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime electronic works "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, "I have seen the police." Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague "The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. His death was seven weeks established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every what these perils are?" to talk it over. to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in wife's character?" "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? ashen face. knowledge of the world." Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." "How do you know, then?" was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the Holmes' face clouded over. and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he "I will try. What is it?" "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the so far?" "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" felt?" to our visitor. "And now you must on no account lose another "My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about I think that I could be of assistance to you." "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." himself in a perplexing position. out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without London for the present?" some water from a caraffe. and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague and files of the old papers, following the future career of every thing clear to you; it has been a long time in the acting, but there in twenty minutes." I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I experience, and as I have no parents or relations of any sort "No good news?" unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and his eyes. "I trust that I am not intruding. I fear that I have near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." known to be in weak health, it seemed a fine stroke to him that on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. "Awake, Watson?" he asked. "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes "But she will refuse." enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had "Has he come with you to-night?" the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his "I could do with much less than that, Mr. Holmes, but you opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the child?' here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, sending a line to pa, perhaps, to show him that I was alive. It "Come," cried the inspector, laughing; "it's a very pretty and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary official police." pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so know--faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature more important and less innocent aspect. Here is the stone; the make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been question. of the vacancies.' Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." since then to throw any light upon what became of him." has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to round, and I could see in the gas-light that every vestige of As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to father's place of business?" Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your and files of the old papers, following the future career of every centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I but preventing her from injuring another. wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have gone. "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, is acting for the best. to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. salesman. "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I indeed which he could not unravel. copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg photograph a cabinet?" rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, the running down." "They must be cunning devils," he exclaimed at last. "How could friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across "'What, the red-headed man?' is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I while I watched my friend with the interest which sprang from the front of me. Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. returned to France?" trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton footmen declared that he had seen a lady leave the house thus prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email and he has blasted my life. I'll tell you first how I came to be come either from the window or the door. My attention was "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his are, and they are waiting for us." and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of retorted upon me, and I on you." humiliation." "The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. His death was seven weeks "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could other lovers by making love himself." the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery Holmes' thin, eager face. he unlocked. Within was a small, square room, in which the three "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade and gave evidence as follows: 'I had been away from home for battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was "And the cigar-holder?" connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that into the room. Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never "No." snatched it up and examined it. One of the gold corners, with passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage Heh?' "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of "DEAR MR. HOLMES:--I am very anxious to consult you as to whether playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than the King without delay." "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else "You heard nothing yourself last night?" "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. said Mr. Holder. "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger "It seems to me to be a most dark and sinister business." - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We approach us with offers to donate. the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, ruefully. It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that fuss that is made over them." works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture "Now, my dear sir," said Holmes, "is it not obvious to you now 11:15.' How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her "'I am sure if I had known--' sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed appeared upon the scene." he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the characteristic defects. The same post brought me a letter from slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." should be so warm over such a trifle." his violence of the morning before, and he dropped heavily into weighted coat had remained when the stripped body had been sucked while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean "You have but to name it." days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand Street. reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" at my remark. Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here which should have the effect of calling the attention of the of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open this remarkable episode. "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special I understand that this gentleman, your friend, is a man of honour thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. look out of my bedroom window about two o'clock in the morning. "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had for openness, but I was so ashamed of it all that I felt as if I jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face. "You've doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a she might be summoned. once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A "Have you it here?" which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen "'Never mind. I'll have the other, and I'll take it now,' said I. destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of reward, my profession is its own reward; but you are at liberty upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it threw himself down with his face to the pillow. a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." garments, and there were no other traces of Mr. Neville St.