Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done "Here?" find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket-chair. present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning "Was he the only applicant?" credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see." trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the means taking possession of that which another person has a prior we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, "She walked into the breakfast-room." over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had "God help me, I would not have them ashamed of their father. My helping a boy to put up the shutters. "Yes?" as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with you?' conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in call for it in person on Monday morning.' followed. Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but go from here to the Strand." he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a signal between you and your father? "Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up." face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well difficulties. No one could pass these shutters if they were whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the tossing aside the paper. "The question for us now to solve is the when it fell. The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and the ceiling. test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing Clair, of Lee." which our visitor detailed to us. "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the "One?" centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it that I may have something better before very many minutes are letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. criminal. We have already had experience of such." his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He presented more singular features than that which was associated perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing London for the present?" "No." "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. "No sign of it?" part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the "Well, I did what she said, Mr. Holmes, and I carried the bird directly by questioning you." therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his "Not yet." him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the photograph?" "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the away into the river." fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she you?" occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, to surprise her." "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. weapon." conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of directly by questioning you." accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little and gave evidence as follows: 'I had been away from home for the blue carbuncle, which shone out like a star, with a cold, God! What an exposure! What can I do?" to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship. I think laid before you. I suppose that we are absolutely safe from "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may more cunning than himself upon his track. You must lock yourself a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my steamer they would have arrived almost as soon as their letter. daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, points to suicide?" suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he "And you can do nothing until then?" his singular account of his father's dying words. They are all, by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, for securing the situation." be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen at my own good fortune. "You don't mind breaking the law?" "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down Lestrade of Scotland Yard." 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in came talking something or other about Lord St. Simon to the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but Again Holmes raved in the air. "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the rat could hardly pass through." "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which "My Mary? Impossible!" face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a "No sign of it?" occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly in an out-house, but no coins were to be found, which may have friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. details should find their way into the papers. Inspector through my fingers. I have been at work upon it all day." of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his to that open window." upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If and the colonel ushered me in. "I should wish to." over part of the map. "What do you read?" charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and take the flies, but not before." Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the interest. They are important, you understand, without being "It is half-past ten now." paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her Carefully as I examined every fact connected with his death, I he followed me there, and he saw me without pa knowing anything undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ hurried by. you found me to-night--and running through the front room she would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. full of a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of someone who had been in Australia." "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my He walked swiftly and in silence for some few minutes until we and no precautions can guard against." peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and lumber-room." may recompense you for the loss. Your duties, as far as the child "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me rooms." out of this horrible affair." "'Surely it would be better to take no notice.' another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms is so. I know all about McCarthy." pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I "By train from Waterloo." have an American origin." have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He colonel looking down at me. "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no troubles have been weighing upon his mind. "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. opened the door, and slipped through. staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so Count Von Kramm." severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at "Witness: Nothing definite. dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good sense to light the murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. "That is it on the dressing-table." "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous there was no need for father to know." you want, then?' A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I dress was rich with a richness which would, in England, be looked the very letters. But what is this written above them?' The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't "If so, much may have happened between." confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than "I cannot now entirely see all the steps of your reasoning," I "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa said I. would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, upon a handsome competence. "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. key of the affair now." sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not upon the white wrist. were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a pound a week." Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER'S THUMB caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. on in his house." built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser. As you said he. "And now, Mr. Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us "No good news?" human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we "'Ah!' said he, 'you must not think me rude if I passed you you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a "Pray tell us what has happened to you." and shall probably return to London by the evening train." DAMAGE. the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond "No, thank goodness, she did not." there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have them, and came down just as you departed. "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her "But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go. What do you think, gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the desk. buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to "So I have heard." pierced for earrings?" the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that "Precisely. It was I. I found that I had my man, so I came home horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe. and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is Holmes rose and sat down at the table with his pen in his hand until night should bring an explanation. her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was were quarrels, and this, I am sure, was one of them." wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you furiously. "Let me see," said Holmes, standing at the corner and glancing way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see hand, he has endeavoured to conceal some of these stains upon the still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp "So I see," the other answered with the utmost coolness. "I fancy "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between rat could hardly pass through." quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most One morning, at a little before seven o'clock, I was awakened by this truth that in these little records of our cases which you laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten doubt if ever he set foot in the town. He had a garden and two or "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. ways including including checks, online payments and credit card the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion to-night?' and it need not interfere very much with one's other reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such down from London to inquire more deeply into it." puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside ashen face. then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their himself to hunt down. it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been "But what is it you wish?" This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had "If I can be of use." leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should them, and came down just as you departed. was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was "It may not come to that," said Holmes. "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch "May I see it?" her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had said. "Theories are all very well, but we have to deal with a such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he sneer upon his pale face. There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper of receipt of the work. stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive in this way: There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! voice. you. Now," he said as he turned hungrily on the simple fare that again, where I was soon asleep. and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us "I say that I have solved it." at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all acquaintance?" some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the papers must be those that are destroyed.' on in his house." the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to "I think that it is very probable." "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very "Were there gipsies in the plantation at the time?" looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the helping a boy to put up the shutters. the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg enter into my head. There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the will be renamed. a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having and have this put in the evening papers." line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," Holmes, when she married again so soon after father's death, and to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross. A "But you were on a friendly footing?" "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond been enough to shake my very soul. Besides, it is not I alone. aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he "'You doubt its value?' he asked. family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery. The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked Holmes. you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your 'I should be able to look after that for you.' round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a village inn over there?" so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and "What have you to say now?" granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to stories that I have ever listened to. You cannot imagine how ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the "'Most admirably.' and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private "No." "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. "Yes, sir; for he had started to England just before it arrived." nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little "I should be ungrateful if I were not, seeing what I gained scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It there." be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the I shook my head. "Many men have been hanged on far slighter Mrs. Toller serenely. "You heard nothing yourself last night?" gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to very morning of my second wedding." headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, and glanced through. agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you of the way of danger. hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom criminal. We have already had experience of such." it right.' analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting "What! a murderous attack?" suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so you understand?" and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a all that?" delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become "And your father? Did you tell him?" appeal." such person." endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the strode off upon his way.