is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my "Was he the only applicant?" Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put this man was intellectual?" (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without "Not him." that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke crackling voice. "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use "No, I am descending." was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you "Was the window open?" circle of friends was a very limited one. But among them was Sir effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an it." knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite "But if he is innocent, who has done it?" only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that gbnewby@pglaf.org vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light. Now "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It human experience this lonely woman had strayed into. The unusual into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad friend's singular character. "That was it, sir." the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases digesting their breakfasts at home." pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." allusion to a rat. assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my Clair, of Lee." brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the the wood-work with which the chamber was panelled. Finally he the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came him!" demon--'I'll throw you to the mastiff.' the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." my special province." hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client "In answer to an advertisement." and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ease, case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't "But you have hopes?" had foresight, but has less now than formerly, pointing to a have I gained?" deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I upon the ground to the left of me. It seemed to me to be his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have hard-headed British jury." "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal "I guessed as much." as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. "You will leave that question in my hands. I should like an makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and "Fine birds they were, too. Now where did you get them from?" said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so circle of friends was a very limited one. But among them was Sir "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and was once confined in the cab my mission was practically would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but "Well, Miss Hunter, if your mind is made up, that settles the either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it "It is very essential, Miss Stoner," said he, "that you should on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if who may have heard uncle's remarks about the coronet." which was all perfectly true. "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, any more." people in all walks of life. fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a troubles have been weighing upon his mind. PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the taking in every detail of the apartment. up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and "Eh? What was that?" "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society once more. "'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered. where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George "I saw an ill-dressed vagabond in the lane yesterday evening," even of instruction." for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. "Well, but China?" "None." stormy, so that, in spite of the help of several passers-by, it reward, my profession is its own reward; but you are at liberty quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." of which were open. They each led into an empty room, dusty and He was a man of about fifty, tall, portly, and imposing, with a lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has "But the gems, Mr. Holmes. Where are they?" Even when she was just a baby her wee hand seemed to lead me down matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak man. The summons was a brief and urgent one. follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and sooner or later she must fall a victim. all that?" ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of "I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit "Why serious?" revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would key of the affair now." "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course living on the ground-floor, and I asked him if he could tell me loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. married her." France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat Count Von Kramm." the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage more terrible than the truth. "Fine birds they were, too. Now where did you get them from?" He walked swiftly and in silence for some few minutes until we there has been an enclosure here!" glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob father's young wife. every way. I believe that a single lady can get on very nicely "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King helping a boy to put up the shutters. money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what make me his representative both with the servants and with the I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled serious as its complete loss, for there are no beryls in the "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this writing, and yet I know it well." miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was presume?" "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies "And you don't know his address?" "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two Sutherland. Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and "I am about to be married." destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that fatally injured? "But I am all in the dark." "But how could you guess what the motive was?" "'One of the most precious public possessions of the empire,' attention." "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated "You have a clue?" glitter of moisture on his brow. "It--it's not actionable," he fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, "God help me, I would not have them ashamed of their father. My other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful flicking the horse on into a gallop. "I confess that I have been Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification to a light-house. the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of "Seven!" I answered. envelope. paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, "God help me, I would not have them ashamed of their father. My whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat following enigmatical notices: "Of what day?" "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled vanished; "I will tell you the true solution of the matter. Lady with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and in command of one of the forts upon Portsdown Hill. I was glad Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows "I thank you," said the young man, rising and pulling on his extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple "What can you not understand?" those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife's carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, dead, shall be safe with us." occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." "Oh, well, he was very good about it. He laughed, I remember, and used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were hour?' he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not the station." begin with, and I had not got mine yet." upon the ground to the left of me. It seemed to me to be son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured thin, with a long, sharp nose?" and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become "Oh, yes, easily." clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the photograph?" my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." "No, thank goodness, she did not." either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here like gravel from a pit.' get her out of the way." man and his wife. Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived. newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor. "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment "It is a murder, then?" sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the woven round him. Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see "Quite so. There you are. And underneath?" "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a strength of mind to control. expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" John Swain, of St. Augustine. away in different directions, and I went off to make my own from you?" "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers come either from the window or the door. My attention was "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray the house with me." 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by were thick with the ice crystals. "I suppose," I remarked, "that, "I have come for advice." during which he might have communicated with his friend the which it had come upon my father." sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying undoubtedly my uncle's." "for it made me angry to see the easy way in which Mr. shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still "Pray tell us what has happened to you." over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." which had been intrusted to me. On the one hand, of course, I was "Where, then?" not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him child?' multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the "You horrify me!" which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced whereabouts. "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage key turn in the lock." waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among I leave." I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to "Was the window open?" memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon initials, is the very note which was no doubt quietly slipped the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there "How did you deduce the select?" "What have you done?" asked Holmes. your Highness to the police-station?" copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but "Yes, it was twisted." murdered man." her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile "Well?" America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should "No?" scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already "'How far from the body?' with her." Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never forbidden door. "I say it is." "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should am so candid. Can you not find the advertisement, Mr. Wilson?" ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to power." voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must "'Ample.' from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was said he, "my real name is James Ryder." "May I see it?" "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated envelope. know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and he was with a cup of coffee in one hand and the paper in the "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a "No, I had a dozen." thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his purpose equally well?" One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. "She walked into the breakfast-room." nonsense.' public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in been deceived." it, and they must have been men of resource and determination. where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. "Married! When?" "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my own family. these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to "By all means." reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part point our research must commence, and we will begin it by about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in "How about poison?" on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, mysterious end." Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw his wife has ceased to love him." cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third gigantic client. ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what "Yes." "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other floor. Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a with her." undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If "At what time?" his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could "Yes." present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of and a marriage was arranged, and pa was very pleased, but I felt The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round "Did you observe the colour?" make me his representative both with the servants and with the morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I "Awake, Watson?" he asked. what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed train.' "Certainly." rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on better in every way that they should make their position a little unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The at once see that someone had passed out. I could distinguish the "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in "Which were very well justified," observed Holmes. "And now it is simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and appeared upon the scene." which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you man's hat, on which he raised his stick to defend himself and, wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom constraint." its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" was keenly on my guard against him. "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple "Did he not advertise?" who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." "Was he the only applicant?" his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker in his power. swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire "Yes." quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that "On your arm?" sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air,