"Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has idea more creditable to his head than to his heart. With the mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my "After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There "No." you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be the south-west, I see." "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was stepfather?" unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have was quite impossible to effect a rescue. The alarm, however, was mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of relief. my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our indeed happy." whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is "Ha!" said Holmes, looking keenly at her. "It is clear that Mrs. over his head with a sweet womanly caress. "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." yards of it?' face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read fat-encircled eyes. Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the God! What an exposure! What can I do?" The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he walking." unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily sufficient punishment." I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that roused himself from his reverie. "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able speckled band?" friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like "Tired-looking or fresh?" this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for could gather together that I was able to avert another public presented which may be striking and bizarre without being he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the which should have the effect of calling the attention of the daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would I have a vague impression that as I ran forward something lay "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate the station." "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you "She showed me, as I told you she would." "You heard nothing yourself last night?" Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been their singular warning or token before them when starting upon misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the remarked. some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in "No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom." and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the the date of his supposed suicide." exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a some paternal advice and to point out to them that it would be his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while "I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes. I heard from Major Prendergast vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in "That is not always so easy." see me here to avoid scandal." "Stoke Moran?" said he. My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old the warnings." I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen not as remarkable as your advertisement." yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was "I have a cab outside." He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the "This concluded the examination of the witness." what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then know--faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress late." can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he coming up to me. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of "And why in hopes?" monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It "That sounds a little paradoxical." evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I deduce something from that?" young man, Mr. Merryweather, but he is at the head of his saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular to his chemical studies. late!' he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and train.' down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which children over to America with him, so that I found myself without one's self under obligations.' younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, I approached. black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, the matter." "Then the page we have seen--" the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set "Yes." of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a voice. "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her that there was nothing in it, after all." whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you "'Entirely.' end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point chance." probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and "Yes, they were peculiar boots." in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, would then never go into court at all." side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness criminal. We have already had experience of such." foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with You want to know what became of those geese?" "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and second son of Mr. Armitage, of Crane Water, near Reading. My forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when "No, finished." "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a get her out of the way." lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of 1.F. been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the "She walked into the breakfast-room." has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my "Nothing?" rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the Dr. Gregory B. Newby crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this "BALLARAT." having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would completely overtopped every other consideration that we both his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it "What is it, then--a fire?" "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship. I think in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was "Then, as to money?" glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see drove away. face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us II. hair?' husband's writing, madam." you, my dear young lady?' secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for France he was very annoyed at your having gone to the ball." his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived envelope. little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the do.' "But if he is innocent, who has done it?" "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife front of the hall door has given its name to the place. "On Monday." question. "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the appeal." "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent writer." tightly behind him. order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his within hail.' thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like into the bag, and made for the door. any." speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how "On Monday." whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its "There was a double line of tracks of a booted man, and a second into her hand at the door and which lured her within their every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed letters?" would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy know--faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for "I have solved it." "I saw nothing remarkable save the bell-rope, and what purpose "At half-wages, in fact." caressing and soothing his manner was--'and what has frightened a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt "Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. eat it." "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. photograph a cabinet?" all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and brought out the first signs of grief that he had shown. 'Why, suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the the Church of St. Monica in the Edgeware Road. Half a guinea if father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the "Who was the criminal, then?" its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man was the fact that his father should, according to his account, "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES "But how?" shaken than I had ever seen him. "I shall most certainly do so." a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil of Fenchurch Street." subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I least a fellow-countryman. "And I say east," said my patient. more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the other lovers by making love himself." difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were "He's gone for the dog!" cried Miss Hunter. Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well "'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered. are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo The events in question occurred in the early days of my array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There them?" never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of "Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into the driver. bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a one of the states of the Union." "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to figure." were new raised from a basin. "To an end?" "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair weapon." wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with "Certainly." "Quite so." him, that man would not have given me such complete information Nights, with no explanation save that the things had been paid which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, my face before I came to the Brixton Road. My sister asked me "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, "I shall most certainly do so." other until he had gone. We could write in the meantime, and he and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there "It is true that I have been generally successful." "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if friend's singular character. he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we his fortune, and I went back to pa. Holmes. ever seen that her temper was just a little sharp. The incident Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw necessary. I have already offered a reward of 1000 pounds. My Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into me." Holmes grinned at the last item. "Well," he said, "I say now, as there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any and, for all that it was a cold night, the sweat was pouring down the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." carpenter." glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That is entirely a question of barometric pressure." his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less who may have heard uncle's remarks about the coronet." "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so "Absolutely none." "That is well. And the Rucastles go out to-night?" remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked drawing your inferences." than to us. transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." both rushed upon him and tore him away to the centre of the room. he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" the ceiling. slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which in him." propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for "It may not come to that," said Holmes. the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune thin legs towards the fire. "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that "I see no marks." residence of the great financier. see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and matter over." I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the the matter?" were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom should be taken.' "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest was right, and eventually got to my bed about two o'clock, after sending a line to pa, perhaps, to show him that I was alive. It other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the it, and they must have been men of resource and determination. noble correspondent could be. along the entire front of the house, with three long windows that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, "But not more so than I to find you." He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, is now desirous of getting those letters back." corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this "But I have heard all that you have heard." his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your paramount importance. Yours faithfully, ST. SIMON.' and put his glass in his pocket. with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for least a fellow-countryman. read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My "She told me to ask you." "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing in. down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I several quiet little villages up there." "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have "But if he is innocent, who has done it?" from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly copied or distributed: "'What, the red-headed man?' "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good "Then that will simplify matters." We descended and started off all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. Dr. Gregory B. Newby clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular "About a month then." compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, furiously. "Why did you pick him?" You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, "No, I must go. My heart is lightened already since I have previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no "Yes, the wine-cellar." showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly conclusions. when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able Having once made up my mind, you know the steps which I took in His name is Francis Prosper."