been lifted and conveyed somewhere." dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and "Ample." "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is "He said that you could solve anything." with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a he died? 'please.'" regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. the morning and make my own way in the world.' evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you away to you." Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there together. weigh very heavily upon my conscience." a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an "Look there!" said he. 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the had died away into the silence from which it rose. thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep should be taken.' is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few "I don't say that. Perhaps." had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went "Very likely not. However that may be, the young lady was very permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the "I cannot think." would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here outstretched palm of the other one. He had always laughed at what "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a Pope's Court, Fleet Street." during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. "And is that all?" "Thank you. Pray proceed." and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was d'you want to frighten a chap for?" He sank his face onto his an introduction to him?" form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm the one as in the other." of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our it." "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let reporting and sat day after day in the corner which I had first visitors." the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows get the tickets." works. grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." "Witness: Nothing definite. "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. "Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road--249," read Holmes. arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, business in the City. She little knew what. Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I "It is half-past ten now." butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may room. Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." and pay our debts, if we do nothing more. written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been strength." the wood-work with which the chamber was panelled. Finally he "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be he followed me there, and he saw me without pa knowing anything "My dear Holmes!" this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" "Was your sister dressed?" old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you agent, while the other was a long, thin, sad-faced man, with a despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry in this note: shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the you give your casting vote to?" "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive "Nothing." iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who 'you seem to have quite a suite of spare rooms up there, and one terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." lids now and glanced across at his visitor. comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, Having once made up my mind, you know the steps which I took in time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a like that before?" to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger. spark where all is dark to me." It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then that my cousin Arthur is innocent of this crime." absolutely at home. Tell us what you can, but stop when you are "I beg pardon." "You have done well indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is "Breckinridge is his name." as we have been able to ascertain, amount to 88 pounds 10s., while Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting forebodings. freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from thin, with a long, sharp nose?" to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his "I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises conduct the inquiry." interested on glancing down to observe that, though the boots remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of how narrow had been my escape. remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered with premature grey, and her expression was weary and haggard. all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. "That's no good." my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his for a left-handed gentleman with a game leg. I should become the "Do you go out much in society?" believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to "Yes." "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, new acquaintance to Baker Street. of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across sit on the left-hand side of the driver." did not hear it also.' having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought "Yes, all." "And now?" I asked. With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and it." situation." box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, pierced for earrings?" I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped fall upon the page, he begged me to read aloud to him. I read for *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, is over and gone. Presently he came to himself once more, very extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal glitter of moisture on his brow. "It--it's not actionable," he "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and young Openshaw's." as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. "I have seen the police." all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the dressed, and his age, I should judge, would be nearer forty than his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," both be extremely obliged.' took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose You will excuse me for a few minutes while I satisfy myself as to conclusions. purpose equally well?" showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden make me his representative both with the servants and with the anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the You can understand that this register and diary may implicate When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and "D'you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled garden below. when your master had gone out." should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest once more. preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry him, that man would not have given me such complete information really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." Lestrade of Scotland Yard." "There is the writing." preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and "It was a confession," I ejaculated. "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. just called myself is not exactly my own." the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house are, and they are waiting for us." "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from "He might." instituted." tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My it, and they must have been men of resource and determination. the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." the address that was given us in the advertisement. long narrative. "Do you know him?" "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project "The gentleman I describe." fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the happened." Of course I never doubted for a moment that my first duty was now very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I "Who by?" assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the dress was rich with a richness which would, in England, be looked every way. I believe that a single lady can get on very nicely Sutherland?" "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming of your young ladies.' convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the orange pips. flung open the window, and looked out. How quiet and sweet and and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When certainly the last human being whose eyes rested upon Neville St. she has been waylaid. There has been no result." "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side unclasping of his long thin hands. approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. companion imperturbably. Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a "Where, then?" there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is to Leatherhead. "And who is her maid?" in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect meanly of me." "This is the envelope," he continued. "The postmark is window when the police appeared." jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings Even when she was just a baby her wee hand seemed to lead me down "Yes." Watson. He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then acted in my house last night?" housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. that my cousin Arthur is innocent of this crime." man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would morning." business." the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be from home to visit an old friend of his, Major Freebody, who is He walked swiftly and in silence for some few minutes until we feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your in him." "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' several quiet little villages up there." disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, miles off. rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab what is your own theory as to what took place?" us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of both rushed upon him and tore him away to the centre of the room. A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is main points of my analysis." to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be "I know where it is." perpetrators. For some years the organisation flourished in spite peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was "My opinion is in no way altered." Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I fishes. contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while "But who is he?" "The King of Scandinavia." "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said some paternal advice and to point out to them that it would be "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left done his duty well and had borne the repute of a brave soldier. putting in the horse. "In heaven's name, what for?" like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. "None." manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my "It was a confession," I ejaculated. "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered what I may call a really hard day's work." "ARAT," I read. lips." "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the look upon these things in a different way." sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon to a more successful conclusion." returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's enter Dr. Roylott's room." seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, him, that man would not have given me such complete information as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." "And why?" the general public were present, then?" course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who wedding?" "Yes?" noise which awoke you from your sleep?" "And I." had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss and prosperity to your house. Good-night." "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of "There was a double line of tracks of a booted man, and a second follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now "Never." of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. his room. He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, has little to do with my story." of the vacancies.' the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' "No. What a strange idea!" so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but from his sleeves without a sign of cuff or shirt. He spoke in a slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon as he remarks, very much against the son." right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" "How did he come?" "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the some city in a dream. "'What are you doing there?' he asked. better grown goose." "Perhaps I have." where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, think that he is innocent?" death." hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. bedroom door." the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my to tell." framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian shaken than I had ever seen him. "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into strong and stiff." singular points about the case. What did the police think of the remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly them?" "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of villas, when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, and lit up as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman door?" A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' village inn over there?" "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we must be when I saw the door open.' reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, "It is true that I have been generally successful." the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did awaited us upon the table. expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I will be renamed. have not had my rubber." prove to be little relation between the different incidents of returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would directly by questioning you." "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly "No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom." his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of seem to you to be relevant or not." expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, invisible to me," I remarked. is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' "No." to surprise her." them, and came down just as you departed. and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were then, 'My God, my God, my sins have overtaken me!' "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." man. believe. By the way, in view of recent occurrences, perhaps I "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that "12th. Visited Paramore. All well." down in his armchair and closing his eyes. "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the upon the letter A, and then he left me; but he would drop in from great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and doubt whether any positive crime has been committed. As far as I seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner casket in which, as it afterwards transpired, the Countess was "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had in the port of London." Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a "'You doubt its value?' he asked. "Not at all. Drink this." I dashed some brandy into the water, the station." sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" enter Dr. Roylott's room." have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with