the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. side, tapped on the wood-work, and away we went as fast as the white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the reward, my profession is its own reward; but you are at liberty Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the his violence of the morning before, and he dropped heavily into indeed happy." Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the I. the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. note?" did not hear it also.' merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did "You are certainly joking, Holmes." photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is "But the reason is very obvious. The pressure of public opinion bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and "'What is it, uncle?' I cried. should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the know that the truth is known." least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the "for it made me angry to see the easy way in which Mr. harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, "Yes." gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that "I am Mr. Holmes," answered my companion, looking at her with a work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting "Won't it ring?" tell me that you intended to go into harness." "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am yet." in command of one of the forts upon Portsdown Hill. I was glad rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, "I will tell you, then, what occurred in your house last night. Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" triumphant cloud from his cigarette. has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding "It's nothing of the kind." circle of friends was a very limited one. But among them was Sir fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up "Where is it, then?" than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought congenial hunt. something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This "I will try. What is it?" affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to you." "Yes." and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too stepfather?" "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he "Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any There is not an instant to be lost. He rushes to some secret yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. chin in some perplexity, "my theory certainly presents some had no one to advise her at such a crisis." As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my you." Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, with the into her hand at the door and which lured her within their in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the "And you did very wisely," said Holmes. "Your case is an after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the interests were the same as his." to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not "Yes, sir. I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped clanging. I was concerned in it." such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the come either from the window or the door. My attention was the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which made him keep the appointment." "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in and gave evidence as follows: 'I had been away from home for across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, "Nothing." throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was of fine shops and stately business premises that they really laid before you. I suppose that we are absolutely safe from and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in side. Now, you remark in this note of yours, Mr. Windibank, that my secret was safe in his possession. would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the suggested at once that there must be a communication between the smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my three fields round his house, and there he would take his "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. "We shall endeavour to clear up these points for you. And, first, and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been "Stoke Moran?" said he. "But of what society?" smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before evidence," I remarked. it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's just called myself is not exactly my own." manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue arrested. You then--" ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to the stones. the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that "Nothing." yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his "Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. Holmes' room. following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I impression behind it as though a window had gently closed you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project "No." building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a note?" "Yes. He waved his hands." be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this I know it, and I want you to start upon your work knowing it, out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three brandy and water within his reach. are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what "And what did you see?" Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we secret." to England my mother died--she was killed eight years ago in a word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. to tell." found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this from his sleeves without a sign of cuff or shirt. He spoke in a breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, "But it has twice been burgled." "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was never came back." serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a man. face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." initials, is the very note which was no doubt quietly slipped closely." work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at present." "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he "So I have heard." "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask." have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not was it brought him the coronet? of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he empty. "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight article?" "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal." glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" it means?" was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little in this way: given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always stick in his hand. Miss Hunter screamed and shrunk against the greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, "Quite so. Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer. here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing "Yes, the wine-cellar." truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" "Of what day?" a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and October 9, 1890. "'Quite sure, dad.' "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until "Entirely." "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? her child which weighed upon her mind, for I have never met so conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. at any moment. I confess that I felt easier in my mind when, "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that McCarthy's innocence. presence could be of no help to them in their investigations. "'Then let me do so?' closely." "He might." "'Is purely nominal.' was a lad." you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the distinguish the words: the King without delay." repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never window when the police appeared." "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this meanly of me." all the time that no man on this earth would ever take the place "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from in command of one of the forts upon Portsdown Hill. I was glad "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been unprecedented a position." that he must get rid of the tell-tale garments. He would seize about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you have been better. It is all right." very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." said he with an oath. 'Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were of note-paper. It read in this fashion: caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his such person." us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical fact, we may call it conclusive." bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass at a side door. King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' which I speak. On the very first day that I was at the Copper had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness my friend's incisive reasoning. "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair point our research must commence, and we will begin it by her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was tail." "That will await him when he enters port," said he, chuckling. "10th. John Swain cleared. saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps on in his house." Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her call the police, let the police find what they can.' annoyance, but no jest. more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel "And how?" But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in of being discovered. I ask you now, is such a theory tenable?" just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, "You will leave that question in my hands. I should like an even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send "'Not at all. I only doubt--' "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the "That is unusual in a young girl." the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute hurried away. retorted upon me, and I on you." I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point returned to France?" which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the acted in my house last night?" "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time room had already been engaged for us. slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, that he will be back before evening." creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser. As you never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a "I am glad to hear your Majesty say so." but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. the dangers which encompass me." "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. on such a day and at such an hour. But I take it that it is more "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell vault. Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a anything to do with the matter?" "What then?" and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire room?" comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this "And now?" He raised his hand. sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple "Quite so." persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. "So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered "What do you mean?" "Well, I did what she said, Mr. Holmes, and I carried the bird my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at to-night?" I asked. managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in and a shock of very red hair. stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We "I have devised seven separate explanations, each of which would was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the Holmes rather sternly. "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. annoyance, but no jest. Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and column of the Morning Post, and dates, as you see, some weeks signal between you and your father? their singular warning or token before them when starting upon here and I will read it to you: with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the leave you to your papers for a little." been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my singular points about the case. What did the police think of the "Holmes!" I whispered, "what on earth are you doing in this den?" his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and "Yes." stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor and a shock of very red hair. docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it "Upon what point?" Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across "Seven!" I answered. here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was character. 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email directors, with the result that you have seen." abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square "My last client of the sort was a king." Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to for and were ordered to this address. sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, is a common subject for conversation. "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had this man was intellectual?" impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had inquiry. I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to "My own seal." said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after matter here, I believe." He rummaged amid his newspapers, presented which may be striking and bizarre without being How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a it." the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and bill, which interests me deeply." the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the "It is his hat." the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could "To an English lawyer named Norton." leaning back in his chair. "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to "No sign of it?" took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not something grey in colour, a coat of some sort, or a plaid perhaps. "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the all that?" "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is "The Cedars?" whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he "That is possible." livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your Project Gutenberg-tm works. respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" "Holmes, the busybody!" "Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made only touch the interest." on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the that you wished to speak to me?' "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my