providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some "Certainly, madam." of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was I leave." upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler "'Stolen!' he cried. little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' through." the inner apartment." Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out child?' "I am in hopes that she does." "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, "'What are you doing there?' he asked. Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon, light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and Holmes' room. if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" relief. the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. "'Is purely nominal.' father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have "Will you bet, then?" stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, "Absolutely none." Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our "In the cells." best detective that ever lived. in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out own family. this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down "An enemy?" roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson 1.F. held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just drawing your inferences." you. Now," he said as he turned hungrily on the simple fare that corner of the building. could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me placed his cuttings. to smoke. She left her room, therefore, and came into mine, where which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he "Very murderous indeed." not personally threatened." electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would chill to my heart. know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It some water from a caraffe. the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a "Entirely." charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of Henry Baker is a member." clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work "'Yes, I promise.' you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed narrative." that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too followed. Munro.' wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am name is different." "Where to?" have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to "Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes. "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months man and his wife. Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, "Only as much as we can deduce." with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an conclusions. fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving DAMAGE. held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. miles off. "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood where she found matters as described by the last witness. "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from "And who is her maid?" least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a redistribution. voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings Watson," he said cordially. up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a dressed, and his age, I should judge, would be nearer forty than into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" in your London, you will know that the office of the company is "And why?" the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond leaning back in his chair. opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little here and I will read it to you: during our short interview, but I am afraid that I must remain but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility shape, hard and much the worse for wear. The lining had been of and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small God! What an exposure! What can I do?" Scotland Yard. With him we drove to the Hereford Arms where a his face which made him a very different person to the round, there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about sit on the left-hand side of the driver." "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he burst out into a roar of laughter. and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. it means?" "There has been some villainy here," said Holmes; "this beauty "And I to find an enemy." business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close intrusion of other matters." was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very chemical work which was so dear to him. every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I agent, while the other was a long, thin, sad-faced man, with a with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with ashen face. open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are "I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes. I heard from Major Prendergast has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the "What is it, then--a fire?" livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and upon the white wrist. significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and arrested. You then--" mysterious end." "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which prove to be little relation between the different incidents of "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened "How do you know, then?" him, that man would not have given me such complete information "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads that he will be back before evening." to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of approach us with offers to donate. "I beg pardon." eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with fashion until his eyes were just two little shining slits amid "You have a maid who has a sweetheart? I think that you remarked "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to front of the hall door has given its name to the place. it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at "Then I do not see the point." reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but "What do you mean?" room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the sound at heart." other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." in his power. crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my "Yes?" Bradstreet would, I am sure, make notes upon anything which you "What, then, did Peterson do?" speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no child?' answer." have not had my rubber." All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." morning." to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a gentleman's clothes. even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his "You have done wisely," said my friend. "But have you told me has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. the League was founded by an American millionaire, Ezekiah and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback "Then I do not see the point." conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the "And you thought he was pulled back?" client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. would apply.' The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." "You have it, sir, just as it happened." hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. "Oh, fresh and glossy." c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his stories that I have ever listened to. You cannot imagine how "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for that the gas is not laid on in his house?" charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to DAMAGE. I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic sofa. This way, please!" notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" be best to do. arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned the Assizes." better in every way that they should make their position a little "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." "I have solved it." beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled right! Sit down and let us talk it over." Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is "I am Mr. Holmes," answered my companion, looking at her with a "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally events occurred which I am now about to summarise. I had returned showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. "Farewell, then," said the old man solemnly. "Your own deathbeds, been so plentiful with me as they once were," he remarked. "I had "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 Pool. you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." "Nothing?" balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with of the way of danger. "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as means taking possession of that which another person has a prior "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in that my cousin Arthur is innocent of this crime." "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" "May I see it?" Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and "So I am. Very much so." "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic vanished into the darkness. on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the One morning, at a little before seven o'clock, I was awakened by "'It is absolutely essential to me,' said he, 'that I should have what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, "It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was comes from the middle window." brought out the first signs of grief that he had shown. 'Why, might help us?" "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship. I think and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the "I am in hopes that she does." in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found could not account in any way for the presence of the missing do you make of it all?" weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from "When I arrived at the house," continued Holmes, "I at once went yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, not within a twentieth part of the market price." of his shoulders. tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at gbnewby@pglaf.org "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even you?" started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I been anything against him. He had for years been known as a in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill ways including including checks, online payments and credit card "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, "But how will you look?" All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us Holmes laughed. "It is quite a pretty little problem," said he. shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid carriage. It was a chestnut." The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I "'Is purely nominal.' "But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me "Stolen, then." "'Never mind. I'll have the other, and I'll take it now,' said I. "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your gone. corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since "My Mary? Impossible!" right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly said he. "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, became a little more reasonable. I told him that we would give what the meaning of this extraordinary performance could possibly Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering photograph?" "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable "And on what day did he meet his death?" My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately quite distinctive." get the tickets." "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came friends, not even his own brother. "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, "'Not at all. I only doubt--' "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so four million human beings all jostling each other within the ran thus: "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. "He said that you could solve anything." answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns "Just look it up, then." was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice for openness, but I was so ashamed of it all that I felt as if I business." the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a "Of course you are. You'll know all about it presently. Jump up be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more "I cannot tell." in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them "Yes." 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving everything of importance, but you have hit upon the method, and from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally long narrative. arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see "Nothing." "It surprised me." He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," clang of the bell. Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the and that he would claim his pledge sooner or later. It seemed written. very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to for and were ordered to this address. indeed which he could not unravel. was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; reporting and sat day after day in the corner which I had first at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" all?" array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was "Some years ago--to be definite, in May, 1884--there came to Lee "Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the "Where is it, then?" in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and what the meaning of this extraordinary performance could possibly breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death's door. Then Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and "Not him." very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two unforeseen catastrophe has occurred to him?" slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded indiscretion." him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the directly by questioning you." that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which he was with a cup of coffee in one hand and the paper in the liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great am so candid. Can you not find the advertisement, Mr. Wilson?" "A greater distance to travel." very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the for here, unless I am much mistaken, is the person in question."