of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I started for the Temple to see my husband. of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project One day, however, as I ascended the stair, I met Mr. Rucastle "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it." knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring examination of the premises, but without finding anything which "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and your billet.' down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may During two years I have had three consultations and one small "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to "It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any tell them apart.' from you?" sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for "And leave your case unfinished?" and he has blasted my life. I'll tell you first how I came to be to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about "But you would not advise me to refuse?" should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings. way in everything. lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his public press." nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, in the hope of finding them." Holmes. really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a "That's no good." money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner of Fenchurch Street." green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would I leave." the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows galvanised. "What! Had he lost his wife?" official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed unprecedented a position." page at http://pglaf.org keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, "Pray tell us what has happened to you." point our research must commence, and we will begin it by "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. thought, why should she come at all? I was Isa Whitney's medical comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some key of the affair now." endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you "We must have a cab." and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her The police have openly confessed that they can at present make a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of "Absolutely none." "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit. All do in these deserted rooms, and I once saw him carrying a large perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to that the individual must be brought into frequent contact with "The Coroner: What do you mean? The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," the return to Hatherley Farm. On the inspector of constabulary logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this "Why, what do you mean?" groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to latter is always instructive. But if you have followed recent called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able existence." about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of true." adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which "I will do it." sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and not interfere, come what may. You understand?" leaving America. Men at his time of life do not change all their while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. October 9, 1890. "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated "No. His orders were to stay in the house." lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this "It is fortunate, for you will perhaps be able to post me up. I the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that He was a man of about fifty, tall, portly, and imposing, with a or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you "Why, what do you mean?" disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the "D'you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. front of the hall door has given its name to the place. endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took wedding?" depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to knowing that even the smallest problems are of interest to me. Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," as he folded up the epistle. During two years I have had three consultations and one small to have been novel and of interest." probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the there were one or two details which were new to me. But the "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous "'What is it, uncle?' I cried. which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us. "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of I took the paper from him and read as follows: "What can it mean?" I gasped. I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my all the time that no man on this earth would ever take the place indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two his knees, staring into the fire. most important business. It is probable that he will be away all "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that "Yes, they were peculiar boots." Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin "'Tell me all about it,' said I. serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand will be renamed. "Has he come with you to-night?" room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the a good hundred miles off by now." it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of "Stolen, then." had formerly been in part my own. "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged instituted." investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in "That is better," said John Clay serenely. He made a sweeping bow IS would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and "for it made me angry to see the easy way in which Mr. propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little the ceiling. up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. the side-table." of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so "No more words. Get out!" astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I of Mr. Rucastle's." snatched it up and examined it. One of the gold corners, with mystery!" "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and you to implore you to use your skill in unravelling the matter. "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project These, we presume, indicated the nature of the papers which had leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side as yours." 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I trying to your nerves." "Yes, there are nearly always some there." "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal meant." the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever our word." money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the Street. have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I was it brought him the coronet? vanish from your memory, as he has done from your life." call it cruel." King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & It may be so in this case, also." "Absolutely?" and pay our debts, if we do nothing more. "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are tightly behind him. interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather observed. "Stolen." which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Holmes old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the silent! Oh, he will be silent!' imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal." good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon He walked swiftly round from one to the other, pausing only at know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for persecution?" It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several to go into your room and bar your shutters?" obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured "What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. brain must have something in it." of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but or who would venture to set him free. I slipped in in safety and of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as persecution?" which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I geese which you supplied to the Alpha." information in his hands the value of which he did not himself "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. frequently gained my first real insight into the character of "But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. "I was certainly surprised to find you there." "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I matter here, I believe." He rummaged amid his newspapers, man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should into a doddering, loose-lipped senility. of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might the road. He beckoned to me and then began walking into the Park. Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting advertisement had upon your fortunes. You will first make a note, and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant works. papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the up this clue while it is still hot." "'Then the matter stands thus. You are probably aware that "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle must compliment you." But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! "You did not overhear what they said?" with frightened eyes at his accuser. "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his "You have done well indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and the honeymoon; but I cannot call to mind anything quite so prompt grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by success. greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I believe that I should never have any practice at all. "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my man and his wife. Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting "What CAN be the matter, then? Can you suggest no explanation?" anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with "None. Neville wrote those words." have established a very serious case against the son of the had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely I nodded again. "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not "About sixty; but his constitution has been shattered by his life sufficient punishment." headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the man. lips." for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of other, as fresh and trim as possible. railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried bell. Holmes whistled. bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your "'I am sure if I had known--' "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and "'Not at all. I only doubt--' heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your saw that they exactly fitted the tracks." be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I will find little credit to be gained out of this case." "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional The Count shrugged his broad shoulders. "Then I must begin," said The King stared at him in amazement. "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so strong and stiff." over his head with a sweet womanly caress. stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time not within a twentieth part of the market price." Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. "Perhaps I have." abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he dead--the bonniest, brightest little blue egg that ever was seen. she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at look out of my bedroom window about two o'clock in the morning. may never be exposed to such a temptation." as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." that the individual must be brought into frequent contact with "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I Do you not see some loophole, some flaw? Do you not yourself usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning ear. From under this great panoply she peeped up in a nervous, description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and of it, and it has lost a little of its force. Perhaps you will reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his "But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go. What do you think, request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good the iron safe, which he closed upon it. have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low in excavating fuller's-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was "10th. John Swain cleared. Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own "But she could not love him." upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of "'And what salary do you ask?' enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the "Yes." were quarrels, and this, I am sure, was one of them." "'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered. petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my "Yes, sir." gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." Mary, has deserted me." them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She not use it unless it is absolutely needed." the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to "It may not come to that," said Holmes. attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He ways of our fellow-men." "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to whereabouts. "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into presented which may be striking and bizarre without being it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his "Why, indeed? You seem most fortunate in having an employé who put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." the unpleasant night which seemed to be before me. Was it all to "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not copied or distributed: yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and "Breckinridge is his name." "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when grasp, he hurried from the room. fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated the nursery. "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been looking up at the numbers of the houses." his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, Surrey." "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. address. that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a "What! Had he lost his wife?" abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. instituted." she has been waylaid. There has been no result." from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed promised to bring home. Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note which we might give you, you would not object to our little whim. 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event "Why serious?" it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a "The King of Scandinavia." brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could the inquest, and which are worth considering." woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into ill-usage at the hands of fortune. still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and "Whose house is it?" peculiar to him. then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir "How long did she speak to this Alice?" yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only at once, for I have only half an hour." a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, "we've had just a little too much secrecy over this business should be so warm over such a trifle." the return to Hatherley Farm. On the inspector of constabulary "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this "I shall be delighted." "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a situation." his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast could not have written that. It is the German who is so "'Yes, it was gone.' Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House