nice household for a young lady." Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his noble correspondent could be. Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up "But you have hopes?" as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, presented which may be striking and bizarre without being "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. highroad, where all traces were lost. tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all "'What then?' I asked. after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I "Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in "And Miss Sutherland?" the road. He beckoned to me and then began walking into the Park. http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?" had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further keeping. If the latter, it was less likely. On the issue of this but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and room?" "And you thought he was pulled back?" to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the was shining brightly. "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men "Perhaps we may make them less so." "Your sister is dead, then?" case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the "Absolutely none." Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner help us in this matter." "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. there is a decided draught." "'Yes, sir.' and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something your co-operation." upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the "And leave your case unfinished?" never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll These, we presume, indicated the nature of the papers which had woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the nights." Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary half-raised in her eagerness, her body slightly bent, her head knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to vault. looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any extraordinary contortions. joking. business at Coburg Square is serious." she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I into the clutches of a barmaid in Bristol and marry her at a sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and to smoke. She left her room, therefore, and came into mine, where unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, "And help." Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, train. There would be one to Reading in less than an hour. The either. It's hard to say his age. I should not wish a smarter It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical "'Don't be frightened,' said my employer, laughing at the start prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable and several scattered drops were visible upon the wooden floor of "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, me upon any point which I do not make clear." would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw ago." he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I point in the dark hollow of his hand. consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of cigars in their mouths. criminal. We have already had experience of such." have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which that I could plainly see the traces which had been left by the "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening the struggle and was endeavouring to straighten it when you premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' the so-precious time, but come!' immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from that he has suffered." pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the The telegram which we eventually received came late one night the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant of his shoulders. saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been confess that I was disappointed. There was nothing. At least that well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father and looked back. at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, Pool. visitors." "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with front of the hall door has given its name to the place. Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting October 9, 1890. de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the your own bird, so if you wish--" as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. if I call to-morrow?" she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical "'Yes.' fuller's-earth was sufficient to explain the necessity for my the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a "'How far from the body?' office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and in the strongest terms. Evidence of a previous conviction for something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, main points of my analysis." interest. They are important, you understand, without being said. "Theories are all very well, but we have to deal with a A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set discontent upon his features. metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, "It surprised me." Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor "Ah!" against a man in the prime of life?" laugh and put his lips to my ear. heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! for and were ordered to this address. which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor 'please.'" A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which "I shall most certainly do so." "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You "No, I had a dozen." faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some highroad, where all traces were lost. "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able and gave evidence as follows: 'I had been away from home for "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm "Here?" http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ "'Where are they all, Maggie?' I cried. naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. "Indeed! Whose, then?" good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me. that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third "D'you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She Holmes grinned at the last item. "Well," he said, "I say now, as "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," was quite impossible to effect a rescue. The alarm, however, was of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a back into the street. confess that I was disappointed. There was nothing. At least that brandy and water within his reach. The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock get no farther, for they had covered their traces in a way that "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" fattened it expressly for you.' profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem "But how did you gain them?" "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a whereabouts. endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" "Yes, the wine-cellar." table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was "Do you know him?" again before evening." the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which "Just look it up, then." departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction. Beyond whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to which was all perfectly true. same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper if I call to-morrow?" "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is tied." "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is be.' was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers where Mr. Fordham shows you.' nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my "One of his hands." the League was founded by an American millionaire, Ezekiah my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased unforeseen catastrophe has occurred to him?" promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are "You'll never persuade me to believe that." three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous here." "The gentleman I describe." his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we "Dirty?" He was a man of about fifty, tall, portly, and imposing, with a photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our "One horse?" interjected Holmes. itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is "No, but the enclosure is." "Of what?" Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the "My Mary? Impossible!" "But you have hopes?" I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had drove away. fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian chance." The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it Again Holmes raved in the air. for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that "'What do you call purely nominal?' Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the himself. "Why did you beat the pavement?" "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, round, and I could see in the gas-light that every vestige of ways of our fellow-men." Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly the King without delay." roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with from his sleeves without a sign of cuff or shirt. He spoke in a "They must be cunning devils," he exclaimed at last. "How could sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and instincts rose up against that laugh. keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket-chair. "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose the yard, and behind this I drove one of the birds--a fine big clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly "Very. But will he see it?" Dr. Gregory B. Newby was already answered. the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would "I see no marks." I nodded again. "But your client--" enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" think you a quite exceptional woman." "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are when you have done it." And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with it." that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess "Where did he live, then?" pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It interested in these little problems, and since you are good a suggestive one." they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the "we've had just a little too much secrecy over this business head. So long, then!" "But not more so than I to find you." "How did you deduce the select?" spare." since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. and files of the old papers, following the future career of every where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises "I should like to see him very much." judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. As he spoke there was the sharp sound of horses' hoofs and views." that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from the Church of St. Monica in the Edgeware Road. Half a guinea if know that the truth is known." depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to not as remarkable as your advertisement." business matters.' hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, of note-paper. It read in this fashion: habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies Sutherland. down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged coroner's jury." agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your companion rose to greet her, "but I have had a very strange conceal it?" vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to sofa. This way, please!" along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached place of silver." some place of shelter and let the county police know what has frequently gained my first real insight into the character of outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good once more. cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and "Yes?" to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I his fortune, and I went back to pa. and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his prepare for the new role I have to play." Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential photograph. It might be a satisfaction to his Majesty to regain but unfortunately I had no capital by which I could do this. I "Yes." "And why in hopes?" not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been compunction about shooting them down." near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. in him." him. tell me that you intended to go into harness." "On your arm?" "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have "Yes." chin in some perplexity, "my theory certainly presents some ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the hurried by. she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death's door. Then "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us call it cruel." Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found "What are they?" shadow pass over his face as I spoke. received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to just ask you whether you had heard it.' of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. I approached. James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a soul! here is her carriage at the door." freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in "It is to him that this trophy belongs." "Do you go out much in society?" "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and pictures, libraries, or plate. donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain to flash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked "I saw nothing remarkable save the bell-rope, and what purpose "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." I took it up and glanced at it. "Mr. Victor Hatherley, hydraulic and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which God! What an exposure! What can I do?" Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was "Thank you. Pray proceed." "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the nothing of it?" "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." through." we went to search for him, face downward in a little "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and man. "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to that you can jump it.' Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man The events in question occurred in the early days of my with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us to be such a very easy matter, after all. However, when our turn police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then