"I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were "Yes." Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is stalked out of the room. is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the pressing in one house as in another. result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and "Well?" the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a "I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing "'Where could I find him?' "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently best detective that ever lived. the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was Lestrade of Scotland Yard." 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the "Precisely so. But how--" I approached. "I cannot say that I have." She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a "No, thank goodness, she did not." her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light. Now started for the Temple to see my husband. tied." "A greater distance to travel." hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination father's young wife. The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards "A call for help, you thought?" disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred "Not social, then?" your only hope of safety." "'Yes, sir.' impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the disappearance of the bride.'" earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very strength of body and of character. His tangled beard, grizzled nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, of Fenchurch Street." Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with companion quietly. down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. would apply.' deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his "What! Had he lost his wife?" "This concluded the examination of the witness." "So it appears." seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. "Yes, there are nearly always some there." "Yes." Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given What do you deduce from it?" passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should to talk it over. 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged new acquaintance to Baker Street. "And you can do nothing until then?" what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. examine." "I have seen the police." the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. already referred to. be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler." row." and the church but not where the lady lived." in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It "It is his hat." rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not Pool. possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the "Very much so." absolutely innocent man, who had no idea that the bird which he "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I In the second one which I visited in Northumberland Avenue, I sit on the left-hand side of the driver." "My private note-paper." basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern particulars. It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that "Ah, but I was recommended to you." "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping this man was intellectual?" "Mrs. St. Clair had fainted at the sight of the blood upon the knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my the King without delay." I have it here in my museum." exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a "You can understand," said Holmes suavely, "that I extend to the dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for "You forget that I know nothing about it." "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with "My dear Holmes!" last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very "How did you trace it, then?" ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a "Of course you are. You'll know all about it presently. Jump up a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice laugh and put his lips to my ear. income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, demon--'I'll throw you to the mastiff.' casket in which, as it afterwards transpired, the Countess was ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached "Upon what point?" "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon "Precisely." has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a twenty-seven years in the force, but this really takes the cake." to-night's adventure." DISSOLVED. that he had gone out of his way to meet it. The matter passed, high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east of fine shops and stately business premises that they really cigars in the box." I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I "Precisely so. But how--" "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number of a book, octavo size, no water-mark. Hum! Posted to-day in eat it." And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, exceedingly remarkable one, and I shall be happy to look into it. by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of must compliment you." "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room over with notes and figures. "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same rope and land on the bed. It might or might not bite the to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to could not account in any way for the presence of the missing distance from the station, and there we found the young lady I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not "Well." "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the you." believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest as he folded up the epistle. "I cannot imagine." moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass excitement. you found me to-night--and running through the front room she through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No "And I say east," said my patient. reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a "Then, how do you know?" Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" sparkled upon his finger. moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's emerged. "And how in the world did you find them?" a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural "One horse?" interjected Holmes. "At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station. the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. plunged forward, wrung my hand, and congratulated me warmly on my beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. questioning and rather startled gaze. WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon begun to whiten, even as mine has." grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved you came in." British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the your sleep?' "On the contrary, this is the right side." serious as its complete loss, for there are no beryls in the extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard "That was it, sir." character. "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his the window, sprang out into the snow, and ran down the lane, extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head. We both "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met death." these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was ways including including checks, online payments and credit card with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and flung open the window, and looked out. How quiet and sweet and murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather "Ah, but I was recommended to you." I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of of the efforts of the United States government and of the better my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend "It is very essential, Miss Stoner," said he, "that you should "Were there gipsies in the plantation at the time?" http://gutenberg.net/license). fashion which was peculiar to him. "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have know what is wrong with it.' caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much "I cannot now entirely see all the steps of your reasoning," I "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. "Witness: Nothing definite. "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. weapon." is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips "I was afraid that you were engaged." problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out over part of the map. "What do you read?" resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in brought out the first signs of grief that he had shown. 'Why, hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of like that before?" whether it answered to the description of any of their which I speak. On the very first day that I was at the Copper before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, vault. "'There is a drive, then?' could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while matter over." original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of "Yes, he did." story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty "But who is he?" will take you up to see the machine.' suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was indeed which he could not unravel. you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of Holmes rather sternly. "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the better grown goose." one else, I think." envelope. It was about ten minutes before we regained our cab and drove "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It "It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, "Nothing." the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. surprise. "Do you mean that she has left England?" there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR my secret was safe in his possession. her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice people don't know." It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical facts are, to the best of my belief, unique." and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police "Nothing?" magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next the little man and touched him upon the shoulder. He sprang "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, "'Yes, but with my back towards it.' way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough "And is that all?" "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. "I was mad--insane." the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at threw himself down with his face to the pillow. With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," truly as if you had cut the cord which was hanging him. I see the (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, "That is unusual in a young girl." of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from "If I can be of use." became a little more reasonable. I told him that we would give "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." "Yes." in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is "Well." "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he "What can it mean?" I gasped. lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a round table, and a large iron safe were the principal things "I am sure." was the fact that his father should, according to his account, my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to "'Is purely nominal.' send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." you came in." these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. "I saw an ill-dressed vagabond in the lane yesterday evening," "I will get her to show me." "Never." her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for "I will try. What is it?" side. pound a week." to-night's adventure." world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and lately lonelier than ever. A month ago, however, a dear friend, 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. But there was no great difficulty in the first stage of my could not account in any way for the presence of the missing some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt "'Don't be frightened,' said my employer, laughing at the start have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he "Quite so. She has her freedom." have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. highroad, where all traces were lost. must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I have a clear field. Besides, we must be prompt, for this marriage gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature if I call to-morrow?" it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was "It is possible." Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, question," said Holmes, smiling. them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the absolutely at home. Tell us what you can, but stop when you are than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction your billet.' "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master ran free in a mining camp and wandered through woods or collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we best detective that ever lived. facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. "Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up." all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and would apply.' "Well, you can ask the King of Proosia, for all I care. I've had when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had come either from the window or the door. My attention was peculiar to him. and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very "But how did you gain them?" willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and "Yes, certainly." was the fact that his father should, according to his account, vault. the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you arrangements." blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of the south-west, I see." and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to "'Then let me do so?' matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling I shall communicate with you." precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." which I speak. On the very first day that I was at the Copper "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the whole matter to your consideration." McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a