all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest "No legal papers or certificates?" and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily "What have you to say now?" "That note only reached her yesterday," said Holmes. "'What, the red-headed man?' and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for name is different." one or two very singular points about this room. For example, no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. "'You cannot say what it was?' customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a I know it, and I want you to start upon your work knowing it, for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, laid before you. I suppose that we are absolutely safe from sit on the left-hand side of the driver." dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and wedding?" Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural the loss of it. that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind might find a doctor, a worthy fellow very kindly escorted me "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend attention." "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you minor matters until to-morrow." "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A "You know me, then?" "You are all wrong." that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. grasp, he hurried from the room. "In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross. A matter." "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace present." a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the "Certainly." "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a "He might." quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I here." highly," said Holmes. He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would the Red-headed League." "My own seal." Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped which was all perfectly true. including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to shall not find me ungrateful." them?" He advanced slowly into the room, turning his head from left to "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down papers on the sundial.'" salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales him to go away.' round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' "You'll never persuade me to believe that." "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that congratulate you again." case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with "And how did he make his money?" "I see no marks." Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, Carefully as I examined every fact connected with his death, I Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a me have 200 pounds?' "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him exactly what you advise." of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. "And the murderer?" the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but "Yes, he did." customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City tell me that you intended to go into harness." gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and hands. o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." returning from some small jollification and was making his way beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a come either from the window or the door. My attention was you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the late!' quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. and retained the missing gems. Even though he knew that Arthur engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." events, Mr. Windibank!" The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond lost his Christmas dinner." platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two electronic works at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry "Dark enough and sinister enough." month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it train.' In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an and a shock of very red hair. has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they absolutely innocent man, who had no idea that the bird which he Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with "Dark enough and sinister enough." in an out-house, but no coins were to be found, which may have downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his "Well, there are some on the stall with the gas-flare." "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just and capable of preserving a secret.' "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will things are very often connected not with the larger but with the ran free in a mining camp and wandered through woods or there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other point in the dark hollow of his hand. "'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and to affect your life." "It was not the wife; it was the children," groaned the prisoner. hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. "I think it very unlikely." "I cannot think." that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father looking up at the numbers of the houses." building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases." "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." "But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go. What do you think, society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over "It is possible." Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural me. late." the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its feature." save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his "It seems to me to be a most dark and sinister business." tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing at my remark. doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two forehead. anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of the bed, and you in that chair." "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt as this. Pray let me have the details." vanished into the darkness. "And it is--" unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and companion. "I never have." same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even "But I am all in the dark." generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding could gather together that I was able to avert another public writing, and yet I know it well." Suddenly a door opened at the other end of the passage, and a Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional may have an influence upon European history." "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, outstretched palm of the other one. He had always laughed at what London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not other, as fresh and trim as possible. and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes finer field for an acute and original observer, but the other was other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., directly by questioning you." "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father result of a disguise--the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I "Perhaps I have." the address that was given us in the advertisement. Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is "It surprised me." "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are my mind is made up that I will accept it. I thought, however, town this morning, though he little knew for what purpose." wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the always that they were such commands as a lady might with derbies." the matter." of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. were wasted." leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' business?" all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of "To ruin me." By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." "No, for it was followed by a protestation of innocence." while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to "But what harm can there be in that?" I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy and devote an hour to glancing a little more closely into into the clutches of a barmaid in Bristol and marry her at a had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded and pay our debts, if we do nothing more. had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the "To an end?" shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in excitement. "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to do." spark where all is dark to me." to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, attention." edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is of which were open. They each led into an empty room, dusty and me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards "Quite so. There you are. And underneath?" as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. "'Stolen!' he cried. the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have again, where I was soon asleep. "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be emerged. He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he to take care of herself." anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate allusion to a rat. "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." which should have the effect of calling the attention of the During two years I have had three consultations and one small idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A "Yes, certainly." fluttered off among the others. say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" "And how did you find out?" "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most "And is that all?" the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far facts slowly evolve before your own eyes, and the mystery clears true." "An enemy?" the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." "Then I shall certainly come." in the port of London." My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with "You'll never persuade me to believe that." the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit "No." thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all not within a twentieth part of the market price." surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged has little to do with my story." pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something business." receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of once more to my work. arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself "Thank you. And your address?" away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch "Then I shall certainly come." frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent have had none more fantastic than this." buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my circle of friends was a very limited one. But among them was Sir clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. Mrs. Toller serenely. forecastle of an emigrant ship. is four-and-twenty." and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on "Breckinridge is his name." upon me this morning, and to begin a narrative which promises to are windows in it, of course?" hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." outbreak?" The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior that he has suffered." "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. imagine what I felt when, just as I came to the altar rails, I places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my "Pray do so." "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to the bottom.' "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the "But his lameness?" Henry Baker is a member." "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to new acquaintance to Baker Street. feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we in my life." swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the outside." together. advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife's "How did he come?" "I should be immensely obliged to you." A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able the coronet at all injured?" have one." "'I should certainly speak to the police,' I said. "Yes, her father brought her over for this last London season. I connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." in his power. address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." interested on glancing down to observe that, though the boots conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped as he folded up the epistle. saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the meanly of me." it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of mystery." of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really "My stepfather's business papers." "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch Behind there was nothing remarkable, save that the passage window the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to "Frequently." where we are going." Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon have one." with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed and I. The Rucastles will be gone by that time, and Toller will, "What have you done?" asked Holmes. "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed "Ah, of course, I forgot that. But the writing?" "'You are mad, Elise!' he shouted, struggling to break away from analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup town this morning, though he little knew for what purpose." "But I have heard all that you have heard." outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." Dr. Gregory B. Newby state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a speckled band?" own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then "And I have some business to do which will take some hours. This