are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair "Well, you can ask the King of Proosia, for all I care. I've had 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and drawing your inferences." introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be some small dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are I shall continue with my miserable story. It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his place of silver." as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. door?" some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only "It must be recovered." "One of the highest in England." vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." "And how?" "And sit in the dark?" have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the key turn in the lock." towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I likely to be some crony of the landlady's." her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, been anything against him. He had for years been known as a wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as Bradstreet would, I am sure, make notes upon anything which you The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Holmes undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger "And you don't know his address?" refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the "And the murderer?" "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey singular points about the case. What did the police think of the endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other written, and locked the door of the office after me. afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been "Save, perhaps, the Sign of Four." The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable the most preposterous position in which I ever found myself in my money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve "Stolen." passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to clang of the bell. tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door be.' however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the "Certainly." not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could "But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go. What do you think, 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right would then never go into court at all." it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency could gather together that I was able to avert another public which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the before the coroner and the police-court." "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage. One of the "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and I approached. "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. own family. skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his an introduction to him?" "The murder was done with it." delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in "I have come for advice." you, my dear young lady?' information in his hands the value of which he did not himself all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely started for the Temple to see my husband. I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler." The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from started for the Temple to see my husband. "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my "No." trouble and likely to be hanged, has thrown him over utterly and knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed pity. For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" "And now?" I asked. "And your mother is alive?" the bedside of the sufferer. It was not until close upon six adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a "Which were very well justified," observed Holmes. "And now it is ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. infinite languor in his face. present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went point our research must commence, and we will begin it by number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and "I have come for advice." "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at "Why did you pick him?" "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant papers diligently of late, have you not?" the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, quick march!" accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where "Will you bet, then?" stormy, so that, in spite of the help of several passers-by, it that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had of the way of danger. that, and I came down." dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." which our visitor detailed to us. "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in You want to know what became of those geese?" low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the returned to France?" "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to closely." generous with you in money matters.' they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of "The vanishing of the lady." it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire examine." devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found what these perils are?" had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never Holmes laughed. "It is quite a pretty little problem," said he. light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I "9th. McCauley cleared. Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest the name of 'Colonel Lysander Stark' engraved upon it. Close at say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was "What can you not understand?" advertisement had upon your fortunes. You will first make a note, he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at you do it in twenty minutes!' "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to wedding?" "You have done well indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of coming up to me. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" I shall communicate with you." him. hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of is," said he presently: "Your sister is dead, then?" "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. At official police." "It is a question of hydraulics, you see, and came within my own he was with a cup of coffee in one hand and the paper in the License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this "Will you bet, then?" it? Did I buy the geese off you?" Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?" said he at last. separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a case-book, which he consulted. Edgeware Road. of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence father's young wife. the coronet in his hand?" "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage one of them." seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for to smoke. She left her room, therefore, and came into mine, where the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. 'I should be able to look after that for you.' shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that fasten all the windows?" way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from "That is also quite modern," said the lady. "'It is locked up,' I answered. closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of to tell." suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She cause to be." sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and the unpleasant night which seemed to be before me. Was it all to A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," "That is unusual in a young girl." "There's a cold-blooded scoundrel!" said Holmes, laughing, as he of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect in excavating fuller's-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry upon the shelf for the interim." letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads and have this put in the evening papers." the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their been shamefully used." As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one the blue carbuncle, which shone out like a star, with a cold, who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any you." "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. Where does the thing come from?' hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure here." in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the danger is over." "Where, indeed?" know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, she might be summoned. "Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?" dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small papers on the sundial.'" labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a burst into a hearty fit of laughter. 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me least a fellow-countryman. Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too "The decline of his fortunes, then?" of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the ways of our fellow-men." time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that "'I should certainly speak to the police,' I said. London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one "'It is your only chance,' said she. 'It is high, but it may be collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic young man's favour. Don't you see that you alternately give him "Yes." had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss better grown goose." style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for "Yes." should have spoken to you before I went; but I was kind of business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same Cross for the Continent." "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager bled considerably." there were one or two details which were new to me. But the you in yours." "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your yourselves in at night?" better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would copied or distributed: photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the "Very well, sir. And this stone?" dates and names. This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is "By all means." "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded make me his representative both with the servants and with the turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that wall." weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, "He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door--that is to "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some "You think that he is dead?" which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the "Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up." at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' Do you not see some loophole, some flaw? Do you not yourself confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. anything to do with the matter?" "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of appeal." doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also." The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit done his duty well and had borne the repute of a brave soldier. feature." a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with am so candid. Can you not find the advertisement, Mr. Wilson?" time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by attention." 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. call for it in person on Monday morning.' pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of caressing and soothing his manner was--'and what has frightened habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for "Stoke Moran?" said he. what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon "'Tell me all about it,' said I. steamer they would have arrived almost as soon as their letter. were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the "'Not so many as you might think,' he answered. 'You see it is "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the and I shall be with you presently." threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can "Dirty?" seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by his eyes and forehead. "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a "And who is her maid?" were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, himself in a perplexing position. Serpentine Avenue. gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the beg that you will break it off." drawing your inferences." "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't voice, changing her seat as requested. of it with the greatest attention. "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel "What! a murderous attack?" morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a "I cannot imagine." a good hundred miles off by now." have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place distance from the station, and there we found the young lady tell me that you intended to go into harness." before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment But Holmes shook his head gravely. will find little credit to be gained out of this case." surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in "But you would not advise me to refuse?" "Why did you pick him?" some city in a dream. became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his your most interesting statement." "That will await him when he enters port," said he, chuckling. let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 "I would give my fortune to have them back." wager. Well, Watson, we are, I fancy, nearing the end of our he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry this man was intellectual?" naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At respectable self." ADVENTURE IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have way: I took the paper from him and read as follows: with me, for we must have one to give to this gentleman in place impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H also thoroughly examined, with the same result. The chimney is A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in in a very precise fashion." list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has how narrow had been my escape. in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set something grey in colour, a coat of some sort, or a plaid perhaps. vanished into the darkness. pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His Even when she was just a baby her wee hand seemed to lead me down "He travels for Westhouse & Marbank, the great claret importers out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." official police." "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found yards of it?' "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an for the market.'