gradually away as each new discovery furnishes a step which leads depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not be sorry for having acted so harshly." "None." calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working "How can you tell that?" electronic works bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for "On your arm?" Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a the bottom.' "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell "You horrify me." laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have "I would pay ten." forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and remarked. jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you remarked. foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no events occurred which I am now about to summarise. I had returned Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of "I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers for securing the situation." considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little formed some opinion?" confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." "Do you go out much in society?" Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a himself in a perplexing position. "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective visitors." shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." wager. Well, Watson, we are, I fancy, nearing the end of our gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." one which it was hard to resist. conceal it?" he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless of them has the shutters up.' room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present know--faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the "I cannot, and I will not, believe it!" cried the banker with an and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. "But she could not love him." waste of energy." For additional contact information: them?" you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the "Not in the least." remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather side. "In San Francisco, a year ago." "When did it break out?" "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the "The murder was done with it." Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but "How about poison?" was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I Leave Paddington by the 11:15." the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my the running down." so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is a suggestive one." this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first lectures into a series of tales." and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in was a lad." extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: rope and land on the bed. It might or might not bite the find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. any." quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are and manner of my patron had made an unpleasant impression upon is acting for the best. recall any case within my experience which looked at the first and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled "'Surely it would be better to take no notice.' the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has "No. His orders were to stay in the house." his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another most important business. It is probable that he will be away all whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly himself in a perplexing position. views." "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and "Won't it ring?" ways of our fellow-men." moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home paramount importance. Yours faithfully, ST. SIMON.' fasten all the windows?" and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been in an out-house, but no coins were to be found, which may have had no one to advise her at such a crisis." hurried by. lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold "My own seal." night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon but generally recognised shape--a sprig of oak-leaves in some "She told me to ask you." have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every some city in a dream. "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the to you." keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was national property. I was determined that the law should have its me, and I could not think that his explanation of the lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold "Yes." "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard papers." impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the that you also have been unfortunate enough to lose your wife's to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the promised to bring home. the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley fashion until his eyes were just two little shining slits amid fat-encircled eyes. a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the "Yes, that is the Crown." A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and "Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out case before our client came into the room." after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I photograph?" "It is half-past ten now." whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a in some sort of light mousseline de soie, with a touch of fluffy logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and Holmes rose and sat down at the table with his pen in his hand snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing "If I can be of use." paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project over her that the mere sight of him would induce her to change "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are straightened it out again. might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out "And how did he make his money?" they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, may recompense you for the loss. Your duties, as far as the child not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to exposure. He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, "And why?" justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a tied." "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, that?' at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' was once confined in the cab my mission was practically "But the gems, Mr. Holmes. Where are they?" than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important which it had come upon my father." advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His outsides of the windows. is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at "In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length "Yes, it would be as well." it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. in my life." performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works done what I asked you, Jones?" "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical passage and a tap at the door. "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your "He disappeared so suddenly." you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring was lame." can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the putting in the horse. very morning of my second wedding." to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the which was all perfectly true. absorbing." "The decline of his fortunes, then?" second." We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his locked. "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was initials, is the very note which was no doubt quietly slipped which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in hardly wander." "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the "No, she was in her night-dress. In her right hand was found the is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" the coronet in his hand?" "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon Lee, in the county of Kent." you in your example." also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and fact, we may call it conclusive." Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, carried out of court." outstretched palm of the other one. He had always laughed at what "Then I can wait in the next room." say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper the salesman. us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out is over and gone. Presently he came to himself once more, very horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable "For heaven's sake, tell me, then, what is this extraordinary sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court with me, for we must have one to give to this gentleman in place key of the affair now." myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the meanly of me." fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but power." "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in "Perhaps I have." the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies "I think that I had better go, Holmes." shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. I should send him away to his death--!" He sprang from his chair dear old homesteads?" "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock "There has been some villainy here," said Holmes; "this beauty Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where "Then, for pity's sake, tell me what was the cause of my sister's "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with "That is not always so easy." especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as of Oxfordshire, and within seven miles of Reading. There is a "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott again before evening." a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have the road. He beckoned to me and then began walking into the Park. my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of had formerly been in part my own. them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very bled considerably." papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the second window is the one that I jumped from." "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked "Very murderous indeed." wedding?" it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an death." "Now, then, what's the last entry?" say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, yet." walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone security.' "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than Holmes grinned at the last item. "Well," he said, "I say now, as "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in I am not easy in my mind about them." following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is mystery." Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and salesman. "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship. I think if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to the return to Hatherley Farm. On the inspector of constabulary memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the should be so warm over such a trifle." off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER'S THUMB a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. just called myself is not exactly my own." you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what "But the gems, Mr. Holmes. Where are they?" "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking very morning of my second wedding." "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when drunkard. I ran to her and threw my arms round her, but at that common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a without success. At last the little money which I had saved began "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat sinister result for C. Well, I think, Doctor, that we may let from you?" he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the as this. Pray let me have the details." We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps the League was founded by an American millionaire, Ezekiah "'What, the red-headed man?' low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I "A greater distance to travel." actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in "So I heard. You have him here?" fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I and I. The Rucastles will be gone by that time, and Toller will, against a man in the prime of life?" "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the disappearance of these gems?" Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. that I can to serve you." soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the upon a handsome competence. grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my to affect your life." even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had "Bought." and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage "Were they all fastened this morning?" back into the street. the coronet in his hands?" "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small gone. has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim confronted him. as he remarks, very much against the son." his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it and several scattered drops were visible upon the wooden floor of morning." 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations I may have to go down to Horsham, after all." "No more words. Get out!" Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while started for the Temple to see my husband. the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address when you have done it." "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it "Yes, only one." "And Irene Adler?" be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you as the fancies of a nervous woman. He does not say so, but I can "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two "What CAN be the matter, then? Can you suggest no explanation?" "How did you trace it, then?" however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I "But his wife--you said that she had ceased to love him." door?" 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email morning." "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not question," said Holmes, smiling. of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the more important and less innocent aspect. Here is the stone; the The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" "I don't say that. Perhaps." "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. enter into my head. is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a simple the explanation may be of an affair which at first sight have I gained?" evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was was right, and eventually got to my bed about two o'clock, after comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been The events in question occurred in the early days of my difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time never will be, entirely cleared up. Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as everything which you would wish to know." there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, me where it went to?" to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, "Holmes," I said, "you have drawn a net round this man from which suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I casket in which, as it afterwards transpired, the Countess was successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. thing clear to you; it has been a long time in the acting, but be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. some terrible trap for her." I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here suggested at once that there must be a communication between the business." when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear awkward doing business with an alias." story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses my secret was safe in his possession. "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to greatest consternation by the strange and painful episodes which 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." "Wedlock suits you," he remarked. "I think, Watson, that you have six. Come in!"