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pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. "I should be immensely obliged to you." was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day As he spoke the gleam of the side-lights of a carriage came round nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather to arrive at through this?" "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so sofa. This way, please!" for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. "Yes." can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal "Yes, that is the Crown." scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible "I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes. I heard from Major Prendergast Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but "No. What a strange idea!" doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened coming up to me. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an "I am to be neutral?" bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I "Quite so. Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer. clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." the coroner come to?" desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he late." contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the careless servant girl?" near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the "Well, I did what she said, Mr. Holmes, and I carried the bird envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, some little use," he remarked. "'L'homme c'est rien--l'oeuvre mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the "Were there gipsies in the plantation at the time?" "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just strength." not fit the lock." the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She in the hope of finding them." convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" "That will await him when he enters port," said he, chuckling. acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you to where he stood hid behind the curtain. endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the horse could go." amused." "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he look dissatisfied." the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the "No." few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. "And did you observe any change in her then?" gone. if only as a check to my own memory." in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a skylight. walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We ourselves in the office." B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she human experience this lonely woman had strayed into. The unusual enough to aid us in our search." against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his woman who has had her own way to make in the world. smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country never came back." formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to "I think that I had better go, Holmes." her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate she has been waylaid. There has been no result." "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand "Yes, sir." "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are "'Gone to the dealer's, Jem.' my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." one of them." I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, them?" of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, all-comprehensive glances. ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt rather vague. The point about the signature is very suggestive--in eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this The King stared at him in amazement. with frightened eyes at his accuser. following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My "I thank you," said the young man, rising and pulling on his have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of clang of the bell. "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we difficulties. No one could pass these shutters if they were "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness "Well?" lumber-room." "Quite so." "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out "Oh, fresh and glossy." some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to "'You cannot say what it was?' It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and disappearance of these gems?" providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business I took it up and glanced at it. "Mr. Victor Hatherley, hydraulic pictures, libraries, or plate. "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the once more to my work. His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to Black Jack of Ballarat was the name I went under, and our party "Then let us do so. Watson, I fear that you will find it very Court Road. The roughs had also fled at the appearance of delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the "How did you trace it, then?" Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be some small "You are certainly joking, Holmes." it. room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he crime. train from Paddington which would bring you there at about planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always "I will try. What is it?" branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. the Friday. Was it to be in church?" "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and half-raised in her eagerness, her body slightly bent, her head solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and something of him before." daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was and I. The Rucastles will be gone by that time, and Toller will, possible detail from your lips. As a rule, when I have heard some touch that coronet?' "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. "I shall be delighted." 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the "You don't mind breaking the law?" in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect arrangements." "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may then, 'My God, my God, my sins have overtaken me!' "If so, much may have happened between." the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the least a most suspicious remark." brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking there were so many in the whole country as were brought together discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office indiscretion." produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was The telegram which we eventually received came late one night before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled "It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship people in all walks of life. have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out "Absolutely?" return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" "So I have heard." "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel night.' said he. "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the make of that?" His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out and have this put in the evening papers." concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch second son of Mr. Armitage, of Crane Water, near Reading. My frequently gained my first real insight into the character of "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over fatally injured? the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders closely." "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a "I assure you that I am in your hands." it." green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There fuller's-earth was sufficient to explain the necessity for my questioning and rather startled gaze. reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man "Pray be precise as to details," said he. perpetrators. For some years the organisation flourished in spite "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" in a very precise fashion." papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or some place of shelter and let the county police know what has This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside "Murdered?" "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the "On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid." pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done "I shall most certainly do so." girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. "'Oh, no.' taken place, and that the honeymoon would be passed at Lord the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?" through my fingers. I have been at work upon it all day." half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out License. You must require such a user to return or "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how ordinary clothes on?" has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, "Can I be of assistance?" fashion until his eyes were just two little shining slits amid silent! Oh, he will be silent!' vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 held up the lantern and gazed about him. exposure. He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see arrangements." night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." "It may not come to that," said Holmes. better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I before the coroner and the police-court." towards the blaze. slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and one else, I think." terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket-chair. has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, "One horse?" interjected Holmes. "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the and capable of preserving a secret.' "Ah, of course, I forgot that. But the writing?" late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found snow. That is why I was so out of breath, for I am a man who Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he "Upon what point?" "So it appears." "I have seen the police." "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who must be when I saw the door open.' "Do you go out much in society?" "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It written. of Fenchurch Street." assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall "Very murderous indeed." It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through ventilator." intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' his face which made him a very different person to the round, a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." "No, no," cried Holmes, shoving him back into the chair from platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. nonsense.' effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were trifles." "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it comes from the middle window." experiences." "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, roused himself from his reverie. Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, floor. must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you promised to bring home. 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." of note-paper. It read in this fashion: "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that "Give me a pencil and that slip of paper. Now, then: 'Found at "No. His orders were to stay in the house." suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, into the clutches of a barmaid in Bristol and marry her at a entirely devoid of interest." there was no need for father to know." at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," morning." "It is fortunate, for you will perhaps be able to post me up. I "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor geese which you supplied to the Alpha." prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! American. Then who could this American be, and why should he an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are Clair, of Lee." know--faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of envelope. derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, front of me. the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." "But she will refuse." an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and passage and a tap at the door. police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the day doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham "I am Mr. Holmes," answered my companion, looking at her with a that threaten you." "None." "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly this Miss Turner." "'Then the matter stands thus. You are probably aware that conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the be.' "I cannot say that I have." Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, and his father, who was by all accounts a very hard man, would answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and the name of 'Colonel Lysander Stark' engraved upon it. Close at village inn over there?" India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence notes," he said. "Then he might have called to you?" its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and business." word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done the little man and touched him upon the shoulder. He sprang "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave that he has suffered." I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the "One tallow stain, or even two, might come by chance; but when I a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present secret." "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous "How can you tell that?" the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking sufficient punishment." direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too case. I can make neither head nor tail of the business." autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. upon the letter A, and then he left me; but he would drop in from me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect simple cases which are so extremely difficult." when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it way: you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your "I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the of note-paper. It read in this fashion: was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was "Witness: Nothing definite. finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, I understand that this gentleman, your friend, is a man of honour the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend greatest consternation by the strange and painful episodes which utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of "What! You do not mean bodies?" He was a man of about fifty, tall, portly, and imposing, with a send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for seem to you to be relevant or not." All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had and devote an hour to glancing a little more closely into "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the waste of energy." as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler Arthur Conan Doyle "That's no good." already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would "I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the "You saw the ventilator, too?" Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not my room." see me here to avoid scandal." certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The that you can jump it.' some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only laughter, whenever he saw you, and afterwards from your gesture, and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two wedding?" "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. "'You doubt its value?' he asked. despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His empty. "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the awaited us upon the table. "You have it, sir, just as it happened." is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of