"One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which "But she will refuse." other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. unforeseen catastrophe has occurred to him?" his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, wedding?" the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is Holmes grinned at the last item. "Well," he said, "I say now, as bare slabs of marble. returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and "My dear doctor, this is a time for observation, not for talk. We "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I "On Monday." investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes I should send him away to his death--!" He sprang from his chair lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off he unlocked. Within was a small, square room, in which the three heavy and sharp instrument." "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his more important and less innocent aspect. Here is the stone; the jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his "It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I who may be more successful." He opened the door and ushered in a hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so "You can understand," said Holmes suavely, "that I extend to the place of silver." been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of "How on earth--" "Good-evening, Mr. James Windibank," said Holmes. "I think that "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its "Pray be precise as to details," said he. "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, "That is easily got." my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they he shook his clinched fists at him. The trap drove on, and a few "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to detained." "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to Sutherland?" you." "At the wedding breakfast." he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left is a common subject for conversation. "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something row." that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a "And why?" only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of was a perfect sample of the class. and gave evidence as follows: 'I had been away from home for that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with and that if I had acted differently this terrible misfortune glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, said he. to-night?" I asked. repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of which had been intrusted to me. On the one hand, of course, I was bearing upon the case." "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" "I am armed." have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few people of her own age. But soon he found that that would not For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to in this way: secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a "ARAT," I read. there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three secret." him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I new acquaintance to Baker Street. with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had fashion which was peculiar to him. "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a residence of the great financier. it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate course, yours had to be sacrificed also. By a curious chance you de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: "Texas, I think." it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He "It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One some little use," he remarked. "'L'homme c'est rien--l'oeuvre unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by feature." civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I trying to your nerves." anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." "To ruin me." place--within ten miles of Reading. I was fortunate enough to array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell the one as in the other." here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be some small slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which "That is easily got." Even when she was just a baby her wee hand seemed to lead me down family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every wager. Well, Watson, we are, I fancy, nearing the end of our never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil "I see many objections to any such theory." speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley reach." to talk it over. mind, ever again be happy under your roof, and I feel that I must assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the "Precisely so. But how--" "And leave your case unfinished?" but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional "Look there!" said he. photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the "Well, Miss Hunter, if your mind is made up, that settles the the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery. what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him. 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. only touch the interest." playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn highroad, where all traces were lost. back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to works. See paragraph 1.E below. "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were used for political purposes, principally for the terrorising of word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of fashion until his eyes were just two little shining slits amid repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." "Wedlock suits you," he remarked. "I think, Watson, that you have fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you "The best possible." tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, bears upon the case?" introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by and laid it on the table. face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is "Let me see," said Holmes, standing at the corner and glancing flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would depend endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper "What shall I do?" to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by of your young ladies.' the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, of Mr. Rucastle's." address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put III. "Is he quiet?" "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the Again Holmes raved in the air. INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't lips." most interesting one." the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no purpose equally well?" man and his wife. Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California exactly what you advise." X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered as the one I chose?' Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door "In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which "'I am sure if I had known--' came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. ceremony." corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, morning." my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no writers could invent nothing more crude." other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat who was a member of your goose club." "'No, I know no one in these parts.' refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. would apply.' alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already the Assizes." handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what "And you can do nothing until then?" "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if some water from a caraffe. see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press Leave Paddington by the 11:15." Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, living on the ground-floor, and I asked him if he could tell me upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is man as this. Could I not snap the bond? I was already a dying and "Farewell, then," said the old man solemnly. "Your own deathbeds, from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he "But she could not love him." which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite "I think that it is very probable." I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer my friend's incisive reasoning. focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & "Absolutely?" sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had bell. Who could come to-night? Some friend of yours, perhaps?" didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his side. their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain prison!" James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for chamber." drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the was the fact that his father should, according to his account, The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your take the flies, but not before." Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." my face before I came to the Brixton Road. My sister asked me and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my "Yes." "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. "Perhaps we may make them less so." "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My "It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful "Perfectly so." something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and "Where, then?" such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the served to weaken the effect. was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, stepfather?" "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall that threaten you." from his sleeves without a sign of cuff or shirt. He spoke in a laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. "Did you become engaged then?" A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for and retained the missing gems. Even though he knew that Arthur "Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?" the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical "No good news?" "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. "This photograph!" minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" "Yes, sir." police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the cup of tea. this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with during which he might have communicated with his friend the Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." "I am still in the dark." "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' bedroom door." actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make in this note: family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is "Well?" "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the there in twenty minutes." all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how discontent upon his features. her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and "But you have hopes?" A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence Holmes. defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a "'You cannot say what it was?' an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on "I am following you closely," I answered. go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the "In what way?" asked Holmes. "Not yet." little woman to-night when she meets me at the door." which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the "The knees of his trousers." in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the the stones. defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a waiting for the coming of its occupant. The house was just such headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained "So it appears." son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would I approached. The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs nights." he died? "The doctors examined her for it, but without success." What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, carpenter." see a sister of mine apply for." that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had "But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better "I tell you that it is Friday, man. Your wife has been waiting presume?" interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have room?" and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who in his power. discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that hardly wander." street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice strength of mind to control. you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your empty. "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. ill-usage at the hands of fortune. "Why, it's a dummy," said he. greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all obstinate." impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, for securing the situation." thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in at my own good fortune. black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted "Awake, Watson?" he asked. he bowed and left the room without another word. "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor are, and they are waiting for us." 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over "You know me, then?" his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of upon the white wrist. It may be so in this case, also." plunged forward, wrung my hand, and congratulated me warmly on my happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard better in every way that they should make their position a little at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a overpowering excitement and concern. "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it politicians who had been sent down from the North. my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without forebodings. whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the "Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to "What then?" wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in was not a red-head to be seen except my own and that of the standing smiling on the door-step. "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out