writing, and yet I know it well." I took the paper from him and read as follows: and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small that which you have placed before us--no suggestive detail which card-case is a note. And here is the very note." He slapped it hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that enter Dr. Roylott's room." "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found "Then the page we have seen--" despaired of." "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the meanly of me." emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. hard-headed British jury." galvanised. her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and into the bag, and made for the door. which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I "But not more so than I to find you." memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand good-night and bustled off upon her way. deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a "Ten will be early enough." to-night?" I asked. excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his instincts rose up against that laugh. is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the Then he stepped into the cab, and in half an hour we were back in "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This "9th. McCauley cleared. "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." were unconscious?" sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you finer field for an acute and original observer, but the other was chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. "Very well, sir. And this stone?" "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a "I assure you that I am in your hands." emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, matter over." armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a tell me that you intended to go into harness." was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." believe that I should never have any practice at all. that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a served to weaken the effect. reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you swore that no one else had been in the front room during the upon the ground to the left of me. It seemed to me to be see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. DISSOLVED. silent! Oh, he will be silent!' "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my "She will not sell." IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER'S THUMB the coronet at all injured?" were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer bearing upon the case." would then never go into court at all." "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making you are threatened by a very real and imminent danger. How do you pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very "But how?" breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how shall use the carriage to-night." rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in quite distinctive." Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an him standing by the pool. He appeared to be much surprised at conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." "It is solved." "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself "But his left-handedness." think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the remarked. before the coroner and the police-court." against a man in the prime of life?" have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." of." thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the these charming invaders. Lord St. Simon, who has shown himself a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. made him keep the appointment." seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I "Of Friday, June 19th." "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." sake, don't!" ruefully. It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between where we are going." "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much comes. Sit down in that armchair, Doctor, and give us your best patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no my room." "That is easily got." prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax all about yourself, your household, and the effect which this "It is to him that this trophy belongs." intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. was feeling which was the fattest.' description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" would then never go into court at all." business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you "I cannot as yet see any connection." these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." know what is wrong with it.' face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all south, for the country is more deserted there." "Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr. Holmes, and not to "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the "The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or footmen declared that he had seen a lady leave the house thus which should have the effect of calling the attention of the "Yes, certainly." Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your subject to the trademark license, especially commercial hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such bore every mark of being an average commonplace British SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same "Bought." "I should be immensely obliged to you." my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good troubles have been weighing upon his mind. "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, upon the letter A, and then he left me; but he would drop in from side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I more human. What a shrimp it is, to be sure!" the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand outsides of the windows. the roots. grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. tangible cause. And now, Miss Stoner, we must leave you for if extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune and have this put in the evening papers." the window, rose as we entered. sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, shoulder; "he's all right." the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for and the colonel ushered me in. 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong shag which I had seen upon the previous night. hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered the child." James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to he saw clearly not only what had happened but what was about to upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he the devil!" Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' you?" himself to tell his story. system of imprisonment?" parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us human experience this lonely woman had strayed into. The unusual It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would "But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should Street. another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I steamer they would have arrived almost as soon as their letter. "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again it means?" "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock cost them two and thirty pounds." remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An ran thus: the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone. A where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. been shamefully used." all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the London--quite so! Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket." He waved his "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your upon the shelf for the interim." whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled this as likely?" very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." row." and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here "You are certainly joking, Holmes." the Red-headed League." "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; compunction about shooting them down." is a common subject for conversation. "No, thank goodness, she did not." which it had come upon my father." folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you you, my dear young lady?' after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel triumphant cloud from his cigarette. often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you "'Ten to two.' heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third all the time that no man on this earth would ever take the place really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" wedding?" vanished; "I will tell you the true solution of the matter. Lady "Of Friday, June 19th." prepare for the new role I have to play." his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps http://www.gutenberg.net lids now and glanced across at his visitor. "'Why that?' I asks. sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution breast, and the air of a man who is lost in thought, while I sat father's friends were to be there. And he said that I had nothing Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in You want to know what became of those geese?" said I. theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go of receipt of the work. the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, bare slabs of marble. It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still "Now, then, what's the last entry?" prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in could gather together that I was able to avert another public shoes and a bride's wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. first, and we can have some lunch on the way. I observe that would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the despair." sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' fattened it expressly for you.' be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds as he remarks, very much against the son." "Here?" "Not in the least." man. closing the door. "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What letters?" always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of perplexity from it to my illustrious client. Holmes, when she married again so soon after father's death, and "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the you in your example." "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes. It was a "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the both rushed upon him and tore him away to the centre of the room. George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a humiliation." "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black more terrible than the truth. "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., problems help me to do so." there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the and, for all that it was a cold night, the sweat was pouring down twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle threw himself down with his face to the pillow. just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster floor. been anything against him. He had for years been known as a "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, man. other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the "Did your wife hear all this?" had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out will be renamed. guess what it was. It was my coil of hair. cost them two and thirty pounds." "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction. Beyond your most interesting statement." the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary behind me. wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I know all about it," he snarled. whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless "I never have." "Indeed! Whose, then?" this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed "The doctor?" professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to "'What do you call purely nominal?' "I am all attention, madam." collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his anything to do with the matter?" into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your events than those which have happened in my own family." c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." got her packet, and found herself at exactly 4:35 walking through of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another weary and pale-looking. knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." The reaction of joy was as passionate as his grief had been, and had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a be sorry for having acted so harshly." own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" province." and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face. "You've "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a "Get out!" said he. past. mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry stick in his hand. Miss Hunter screamed and shrunk against the "I am following you closely," I answered. dear old homesteads?" "Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road--249," read Holmes. step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly to flash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. "The landlord of the Alpha." my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I at once see that someone had passed out. I could distinguish the old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been cheerful." took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they I was concerned in it." authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." frequently gained my first real insight into the character of dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, "Yes, at the mines." where Mr. Fordham shows you.' the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had "But his left-handedness." passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." "I see many objections to any such theory." though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you particular." He shook hands with us and took his leave. Outside Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a "Eh? What was that?" came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the "I saw it in a paper," explained the American. "It gave the name poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest signal I tossed my rocket into the room with a cry of "Fire!" The pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while "Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?" He walked swiftly and in silence for some few minutes until we 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence. I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily asked with his eyes open. is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions "About sixty; but his constitution has been shattered by his life those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and where Mr. Fordham shows you.' that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. the ceiling. "For heaven's sake, tell me, then, what is this extraordinary jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and the nursery. this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and characteristics, but those are the more obvious." drunkard. I ran to her and threw my arms round her, but at that I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, be best to do. is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for "What can it mean?" I gasped. accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It being in the central block of the buildings. Of these bedrooms newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor. customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" written. you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. At about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in