"'What then?' I asked. smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to that you can jump it.' "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and be.' in the strongest terms. Evidence of a previous conviction for "It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email it." examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was Literary Archive Foundation to change my dress. joking. that, and I came down." and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted photograph?" "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which the wood-work with which the chamber was panelled. Finally he sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a "Perhaps we may make them less so." can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this it." We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, "Bought." was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The "That also I could fathom." homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he and wait." morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm light and attacked it." "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back the little man and touched him upon the shoulder. He sprang think you a quite exceptional woman." 'you seem to have quite a suite of spare rooms up there, and one give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my "Then that will simplify matters." We descended and started off you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket." He waved his strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your vault. said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had "'Yes, sir.' way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should to have that photograph." "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable might find a doctor, a worthy fellow very kindly escorted me seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were my secret was safe in his possession. the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the corner of the building. "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" might help us?" values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy ago." been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an DAMAGE. days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two "It was an hour's good drive." remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the "You forget that I know nothing about it." (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." look dissatisfied." for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious "In the dress is a pocket. In the pocket is a card-case. In the Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I who may be more successful." He opened the door and ushered in a feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the "Did you observe the colour?" left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing round, and I could see in the gas-light that every vestige of orange pips. and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's but preventing her from injuring another. returning from some small jollification and was making his way gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of dear old homesteads?" basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. "It looks newer than the other things?" to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as and capable of preserving a secret.' Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. "Then you may entirely rely on me." said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding children over to America with him, so that I found myself without he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are "I know where it is." laughed. He laughed very heartily, with a high, ringing note, belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I "'Ten to two.' miles off. signal between you and your father? send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as you want, then?' opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to "Well, I did what she said, Mr. Holmes, and I carried the bird likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I some paternal advice and to point out to them that it would be His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain hurried away. "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we "My dear Holmes!" visitors." lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most came talking something or other about Lord St. Simon to 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a is so. I know all about McCarthy." this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had "On Monday." other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during "So I heard. You have him here?" your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was "Not yet." "Pray continue your narrative." the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the presence could be of no help to them in their investigations. "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all death." woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small used to be." black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether indeed happy." "And from a noble client?" providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay chin in some perplexity, "my theory certainly presents some about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip instituted." at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of and files of the old papers, following the future career of every impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had to me. "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered nothing of it?" "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide "It is to him that this trophy belongs." Duke, his father, was at one time Secretary for Foreign Affairs. he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall "Pray do so." saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty with you alone." "'Where to?' you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me "A client, then?" disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired thirty. are, I think, all that we need." take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin "The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, thin, with a long, sharp nose?" "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, been enough to shake my very soul. Besides, it is not I alone. where she found matters as described by the last witness. "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill in an out-house, but no coins were to be found, which may have fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and and files of the old papers, following the future career of every flock.' a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." interested in these little problems, and since you are good mystery may be cleared along those lines." which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last "But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work skylight. "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. imagine what I felt when, just as I came to the altar rails, I His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, "Oh, fresh and glossy." his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind II. every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such "He is dead," cried several voices. the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this I should send him away to his death--!" He sprang from his chair he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he "You don't mind breaking the law?" peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the "I do." I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider begun to whiten, even as mine has." of fine shops and stately business premises that they really "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the He walked swiftly round from one to the other, pausing only at "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as "And what of Irene Adler?" I asked. was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see." moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for "You did not overhear what they said?" male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which not personally threatened." I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the "I guessed as much." the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed "Do you go out much in society?" "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. foresight and the moral retrogression?" have one." then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I drawing your inferences." way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway "'What then?' I asked. delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, "Did you observe the colour?" red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security "I was sure that I might rely on you." inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that and gave evidence as follows: 'I had been away from home for The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads everything which you would wish to know." has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." returned to France?" these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless trifles." will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It the room while you explain this matter?" tell me to be still. Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled outside." "Seven!" I answered. Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a young Openshaw's." servitude unless we can establish his innocence. It is possible "My private note-paper." "You have compromised yourself seriously." Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott of his shoulders. that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. "Certainly." after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter "What do you think that this unfortunate lady died of, then?" I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are threw himself down with his face to the pillow. himself. free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of to tackle the facts." you came in." "Game for a morning drive?" placed his cuttings. "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" "So I heard. You have him here?" Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. them, and came down just as you departed. compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is "'And what salary do you ask?' His smile broadened. they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small him to go away.' shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so "But how?" and yet might appear to be the best policy to a scheming man. His that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went "'You are mad, Elise!' he shouted, struggling to break away from to where he stood hid behind the curtain. Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & "Which were very well justified," observed Holmes. "And now it is time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived. good-night and bustled off upon her way. "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police her also." "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. is over and gone. Presently he came to himself once more, very through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the "Was your sister dressed?" and, for all that it was a cold night, the sweat was pouring down figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my hair?' will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building "And what did you see?" "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more "Here?" shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I Count Von Kramm." absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself persecution?" possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to me. "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary me upon any point which I do not make clear." it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter he unlocked. Within was a small, square room, in which the three "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The "Showing that she had struck a light and looked about her when I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be to-night?' together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines,