advice." depend upon your compliance." "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if the house with me." and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. chin in some perplexity, "my theory certainly presents some "No, my brougham is waiting." than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of think that any burglar could have done. man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of "No, thank goodness, she did not." of Fenchurch Street." "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two fluttered off among the others. Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical "Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?" upon the letter A, and then he left me; but he would drop in from professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. her child which weighed upon her mind, for I have never met so may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." ADVENTURE II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE and prosperity to your house. Good-night." been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship noise which awoke you from your sleep?" "How do you know, then?" surprised at his own arrest, or feigned indignation at it, I "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." said I. happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington "You can understand," said Holmes suavely, "that I extend to the "'It is your only chance,' said she. 'It is high, but it may be "Then the page we have seen--" generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." "Was he the only applicant?" and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature came talking something or other about Lord St. Simon to even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may article?" the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were Watson. He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and death." maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. go from here to the Strand." directly by questioning you." "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man something of him before." was used.' have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and the roots. ago." whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little finer field for an acute and original observer, but the other was We made our way downstairs as quietly as possible, and out into think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in said he. "And now, Mr. Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us "And leave your case unfinished?" darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, tell me that you intended to go into harness." "I am following you closely," I answered. would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, ADVENTURE IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which He walked swiftly and in silence for some few minutes until we them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. Clair, of Lee." Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where "It was an hour's good drive." word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of quick march!" dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have "That is also quite modern," said the lady. "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, particulars. It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those as he remarks, very much against the son." "Then, come. I am all impatience to be gone." By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high and inquire as to the address." Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and washing it down with a long draught of water. petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in "Witness: I must still refuse. laughed. He laughed very heartily, with a high, ringing note, money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily "She showed me, as I told you she would." in the hope of finding them." "No, but the enclosure is." it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." felt?" seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of held up the lantern and gazed about him. "Then you don't think I'll see him again?" he died? I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a to you." what I may call a really hard day's work." upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone behind me. the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, respectable self." had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately nice household for a young lady." This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for instituted." "And how did he make his money?" 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I "But of what society?" With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during that my cousin Arthur is innocent of this crime." works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal "Here we are!" said Holmes cheerily as we filed into the room. "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative American gentleman, had left only the day before, and on looking money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London definite end. Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am you in your example." finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the and your relations to her." age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years steamer they would have arrived almost as soon as their letter. "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the you for a few hours?" "But you have hopes?" Swandam Lane on her way back to the station. Have you followed me "Then the page we have seen--" the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him. way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in emerged. his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it and effective." The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the "'Yes, sir.' wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a think, you have already met." in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. Suddenly a door opened at the other end of the passage, and a was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You "Then you may be so with me." from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the "No, your secret lies in London. It is there that I shall seek the mornings. Besides, I knew that my assistant was a good man, here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat interested in these little problems, and since you are good has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could her he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her "That is a possible solution--in fact, as matters stand, it is of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon "Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered "She told me to ask you." gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a I leave." and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp "But I am all in the dark." the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to open." brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us. only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had in my life." labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were particular state visit http://pglaf.org star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, Holmes rose and sat down at the table with his pen in his hand door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen copied or distributed: "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some "'Surely it would be better to take no notice.' anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" through my fingers. I have been at work upon it all day." The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that him nearly every evening." Surrey." got her packet, and found herself at exactly 4:35 walking through 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the Stoke Moran." receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the "Texas, I think." reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' passage and a tap at the door. civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I father's young wife. Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed "Nothing?" Sutherland?" the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the chemical work which was so dear to him. his violence of the morning before, and he dropped heavily into what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they "Did he not advertise?" "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass strength of mind to control. the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some "There are none." and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the garments, and there were no other traces of Mr. Neville St. my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was truly as if you had cut the cord which was hanging him. I see the It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of "'Where to?' "But we can't all be." headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, questioning and rather startled gaze. a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" papers on the sundial.'" "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were at my own good fortune. believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to sit on the left-hand side of the driver." Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the "Not in the least." huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the the matter now, so I locked it up in my private safe and turned chance." this case, Watson, if there is nothing else." every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and "I would pay ten." "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever jewels which you have stolen?' noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an people of her own age. But soon he found that that would not "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. distance from the station, and there we found the young lady "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are "Absolutely none." never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of flung open the window, and looked out. How quiet and sweet and or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' arms and began to sob in a high treble key. that you wished to speak to me?' of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, bare slabs of marble. "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't "Only as much as we can deduce." to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his late." "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for gone. free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home "And now?" He raised his hand. "My heart had turned to lead. 'It is K. K. K.,' said I. was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would better grown goose." brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not of the one which your family is now devouring." web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought of which were open. They each led into an empty room, dusty and "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my works. See paragraph 1.E below. dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of laugh and put his lips to my ear. "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I to some other building. can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, "Certainly, sir," said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. a branded thief, without ever having touched the wealth for which "What office?" "I am armed." corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual looking up at the numbers of the houses." "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon "'There is a drive, then?' Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington "Eh? What was that?" "Of course you are. You'll know all about it presently. Jump up father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, and your relations to her." For additional contact information: madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the "You have carte blanche." and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A "'What, the red-headed man?' in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The to affect your life." had formerly been in part my own. "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them hand, madam?" steamer they would have arrived almost as soon as their letter. as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in is a common subject for conversation. landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it room had already been engaged for us. his grey eyes. "You know me, then?" Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon which we might give you, you would not object to our little whim. "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to "This photograph!" man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the "To ruin me." that he will be back before evening." The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the father's place of business?" "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this and the whole place is in a blaze." size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she had this final quarrel? years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" "And you thought he was pulled back?" weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in nights." outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." heart into my mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish the blue carbuncle, which shone out like a star, with a cold, "Seven!" I answered. showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the the little opening for the ventilator is." beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and "Mrs. St. Clair had fainted at the sight of the blood upon the daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' "Yes." "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, of them has the shutters up.' 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had round the room. All was as we had seen it in the daytime. Then "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular might help us?" "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a These, we presume, indicated the nature of the papers which had its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed It was not very long before my friend's prediction was fulfilled. been enough to shake my very soul. Besides, it is not I alone. "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we towards the blaze. "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon you understand?" whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with more terrible than the truth. in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. keep the flames under. "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to "'And the work?' and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the the place where our red-headed client carried on his business. and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building into the bag, and made for the door. "'What is it, uncle?' I cried. "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To "Yes." down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather the iron safe, which he closed upon it. remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had "Texas, I think." before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast to that open window." along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the "Breckinridge is his name." back his son; but I had gained the cover of the wood, though I the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing "Yes, only one." both be extremely obliged.' "'Oh,' says she, 'we've set yours aside for you--Jem's bird, we the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. The King stared at him in amazement. Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to