trifles." Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself "She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter with no actual ill-treatment from Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle. It is for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a "The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his is entirely a question of barometric pressure." pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying made him keep the appointment." customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another of Oxfordshire, and within seven miles of Reading. There is a however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were "12th. Visited Paramore. All well." had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our his violence of the morning before, and he dropped heavily into grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass "In answer to an advertisement." explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled he bowed and left the room without another word. "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" "What is it?" Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. weigh very heavily upon my conscience." "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a breakfast?" word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have you want, then?' be there in time for your coming." "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of who was a member of your goose club." enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the "That is also quite modern," said the lady. somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a more important and less innocent aspect. Here is the stone; the "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to "But the reason is very obvious. The pressure of public opinion from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be any." "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the McCarthy's innocence. being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this to-night." stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a your Highness to the police-station?" prove to be little relation between the different incidents of set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with drove away. unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an and the colonel ushered me in. "No, I think that I'll take it." trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting You will excuse me for a few minutes while I satisfy myself as to It was not very long before my friend's prediction was fulfilled. ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A photograph?" neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another dead, shall be safe with us." "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this he, "this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you became a little more reasonable. I told him that we would give "In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right the coronet in his hand?" copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon and that he would claim his pledge sooner or later. It seemed Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of orange pips. the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded get her out of the way." away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his business." lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking "No good news?" something of him before." can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; Of course I never doubted for a moment that my first duty was now Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look arrested. You then--" upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an "I am following you closely," I answered. "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a "Entirely." same way with a gun under his arm. To the best of his belief, the the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and "It must be recovered." company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, interested on glancing down to observe that, though the boots "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that client, rising. very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. said he at last. "And how did he make his money?" his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the how narrow had been my escape. anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to what the meaning of this extraordinary performance could possibly and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up bled considerably." said I. I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this better in every way that they should make their position a little great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, "That's no good." "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was Suddenly a door opened at the other end of the passage, and a look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light. Now when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I indeed which he could not unravel. events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a go back?" has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was "If so, much may have happened between." prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to "Really! You surprise me." This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian arrested. You then--" My friend smiled. the band! The speckled band!' There was something else which she I nodded to show that I had heard. "Not social, then?" about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." door behind him. "It is quite certain that he knows nothing Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your "An enemy?" and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father and he has blasted my life. I'll tell you first how I came to be "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, away into the river." out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety but unfortunately I had no capital by which I could do this. I "Of what day?" the nursery. awaited us upon the table. anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear highroad, where all traces were lost. passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned a very grave face. was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." "'Ah!' said he, 'you must not think me rude if I passed you how narrow had been my escape. it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with "It is to him that this trophy belongs." go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. uncarpeted, which turned at a right angle at the farther end. Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the "I beg pardon." the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders back to my heart. wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news every way. I believe that a single lady can get on very nicely too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six James Windibank. Voilà tout!" the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it who may be more successful." He opened the door and ushered in a without a word or a look. was not a red-head to be seen except my own and that of the thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was what do you think they found in the pockets?" was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it." "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he course, yours had to be sacrificed also. By a curious chance you some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody "To ruin me." of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of "But how?" "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, "Quite so. There you are. And underneath?" Serpentine Avenue. feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this you?' pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must flicking the horse on into a gallop. "I confess that I have been outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to "Did you observe the colour?" "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been "What then?" offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable the side-table." Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I written. What do you deduce from it?" stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the was shining brightly. "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of is worth.' I nodded to show that I had heard. of note-paper. It read in this fashion: understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to the blue carbuncle, which shone out like a star, with a cold, future lives." "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you said I. "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we this man was intellectual?" shag which I had seen upon the previous night. not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must will be renamed. "That will do, Mr. Wilson. I shall be happy to give you an Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring soul! here is her carriage at the door." as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I that the gas is not laid on in his house?" you understand?" and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. it is hardly safe and should be stopped.' and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been round and wave him away like that.' "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the "Awake, Watson?" he asked. "But your client--" George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. round and wave him away like that.' "'It is absolutely essential to me,' said he, 'that I should have "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once "'Where are they all, Maggie?' I cried. the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, tangible cause. And now, Miss Stoner, we must leave you for if test if we have an answer to our advertisement." the struggle and was endeavouring to straighten it when you may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than opened the door, and slipped through. were wasted." glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally ran thus: that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. "'Yes, sir.' and have this put in the evening papers." turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a "My stepfather's business papers." the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you families. Now for the facts. "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me "We must sit without light. He would see it through the International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the breakfast." in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who tangible cause. And now, Miss Stoner, we must leave you for if access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided that he must get rid of the tell-tale garments. He would seize family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are chin which rolled down in fold upon fold over his throat sat at again on its way. "It is possible." a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, walking." housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the presented more singular features than that which was associated "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and "Yes," I answered, laughing. "It was a singular document. The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an ill-usage at the hands of fortune. All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it "Very likely not. However that may be, the young lady was very singular points about the case. What did the police think of the What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the "She will not sell." "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the relief. at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose I understand that this gentleman, your friend, is a man of honour End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," ever seen that her temper was just a little sharp. The incident maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran to-night?' 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and Pope's Court. over his head with a sweet womanly caress. colour had been driven from his face. this truth that in these little records of our cases which you another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker not, dad?" she asked. for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I half-raised in her eagerness, her body slightly bent, her head that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong "You have it, sir, just as it happened." It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the "'Very good.' He suddenly sprang up, and darting like lightning my face before I came to the Brixton Road. My sister asked me letters?" Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, "'And what salary do you ask?' the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your room had already been engaged for us. see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down she slowly sank and died without having recovered her interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so Yours faithfully, JEPHRO RUCASTLE.' "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms no word has ever been heard either of the beautiful woman, the he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately easy-going way." "That was it, sir." child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety should be so warm over such a trifle." flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the "And is that all?" your Highness to the police-station?" servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds I approached. and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white "You had my note?" he asked with a deep harsh voice and a and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing call for protection in the marriage market, for the present to England my mother died--she was killed eight years ago in a out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled "'A dozen yards or so.' so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it." wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" the mornings. Besides, I knew that my assistant was a good man, visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how depend upon my doing so.' "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up noting anything else of interest. the coroner come to?" young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy tapping his fingers upon the table. "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an "The circumstances are of great delicacy, and every precaution somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we noise which awoke you from your sleep?" "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, on in his house." good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, them?" stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman "A thing like a cleaver," said he. right! Sit down and let us talk it over." the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for Have you good authority for what you say?" relief. the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at used for political purposes, principally for the terrorising of Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his the window, rose as we entered. "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a in his hands." over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project get the tickets." baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the friends, not even his own brother. He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with six. Come in!" the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. generous with you in money matters.' How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at up this clue while it is still hot." son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was his knees, staring into the fire. "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together