"'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral, and Miss Hatty "Not in a good cause." him. the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and hurried by. "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six of campaign. forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to have had none more fantastic than this." My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very "And what of Irene Adler?" I asked. and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are comes from London, and therefore we cannot count upon delay." favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak of a book, octavo size, no water-mark. Hum! Posted to-day in of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he cigar and let me expound." were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his several quiet little villages up there." and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it "Yes. He waved his hands." deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from "Perhaps we may make them less so." bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms my room." "But if he is innocent, who has done it?" "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off "But it has twice been burgled." charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed over her that the mere sight of him would induce her to change but preventing her from injuring another. posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" meant." poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." at a side door. having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must very old mansion. "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the rather vague. The point about the signature is very suggestive--in I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. said he, "my real name is James Ryder." deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction. Beyond "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me Cross for the Continent." return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to flicking the horse on into a gallop. "I confess that I have been knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled "But how could you guess what the motive was?" suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his the most preposterous position in which I ever found myself in my "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time "You have compromised yourself seriously." "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as meant it for the best. I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at returning from some small jollification and was making his way only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her believe. By the way, in view of recent occurrences, perhaps I his knees, staring into the fire. Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in "Very murderous indeed." brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if chin in some perplexity, "my theory certainly presents some indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and "A greater distance to travel." read over the extraordinary announcement. thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, "If so, much may have happened between." homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is cup of tea. suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. "'You shall leave it in the hands of the police!' I cried extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of "I have devised seven separate explanations, each of which would whatever might befall. papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the the coronet at all injured?" mystery!" Does that suggest anything?" destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the "Then I shall certainly come." His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the suggested at once that there must be a communication between the "But I am so sure that he is innocent. You know what woman's knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me enter into my head. of the one which your family is now devouring." "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving This is what he says: Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped ceremony." means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of "It is no ordinary one." seven miles from Eyford Station.' very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am "If so, much may have happened between." "And how did you verify them?" that you saw all that I did." as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached "And I have some business to do which will take some hours. This about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as no word has ever been heard either of the beautiful woman, the relation between them, and what the object of his repeated among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some be. there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all if I call to-morrow?" "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be himself to hunt down. interests were the same as his." the band! The speckled band!' There was something else which she "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in IS the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. lost his Christmas dinner." every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence rat could hardly pass through." "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and leave you to your papers for a little." not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his question," said Holmes, smiling. feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was "And very wet it seems to have made you," said Holmes laying his "'Where could I find him?' envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before hereditary King of Bohemia." respectable self." Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the them?" "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is lectures into a series of tales." rose-bushes. "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father ventilator." waiting for the coming of its occupant. The house was just such knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: "Never." "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the then, 'My God, my God, my sins have overtaken me!' "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for "Nor running a chance of arrest?" Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his "I cannot now entirely see all the steps of your reasoning," I ill-usage at the hands of fortune. used to be." One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that "No sign of it?" minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as him to go away.' done what I asked you, Jones?" and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof already been minutely examined." downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his "Farewell, then," said the old man solemnly. "Your own deathbeds, "He travels for Westhouse & Marbank, the great claret importers the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." "What CAN be the matter, then? Can you suggest no explanation?" sentimental considerations in the background which would induce such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle dead, shall be safe with us." buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch page at http://pglaf.org "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to living on the ground-floor, and I asked him if he could tell me man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case fish-monger and a tide-waiter." blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in "It is to him that this trophy belongs." so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, "On your arm?" furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the "Which surely he restored to their owner?" again before evening." were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the waiting for the coming of its occupant. The house was just such way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously extraordinary contortions. "Witness: I must still refuse. up this clue while it is still hot." upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. with you?" see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole his singular account of his father's dying words. They are all, will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need There is not an instant to be lost. He rushes to some secret have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his congratulate you again." new duties?' "Well, there are some on the stall with the gas-flare." I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he events, Mr. Windibank!" "No bad?" jewels which you have stolen?' "'You doubt its value?' he asked. desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should point in the dark hollow of his hand. south, for the country is more deserted there." the night.' business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were "Certainly." information in his hands the value of which he did not himself "Then how many are there?" do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a are windows in it, of course?" young Openshaw's." and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others get the tickets." a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?" pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch point our research must commence, and we will begin it by had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet "One of the highest in England." trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened geese which you supplied to the Alpha." secret." "I will, Miss Turner." was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." absolutely follow my advice in every respect." "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the "No, distinctly professional." King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. "Quite so. There you are. And underneath?" the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no "You did not overhear what they said?" time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned she used." "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, He picked out from his bundle a copy of the local Herefordshire the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! Sutherland. enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a existence." labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. depend upon your compliance." "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are there is a decided draught." dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out key turn in the lock." "Holmes!" I whispered, "what on earth are you doing in this den?" that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little Doctor, of the paper and the date." individual and becomes the badge of a society." I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness "From East London. What do you deduce from that?" the matter." "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous "What! a murderous attack?" Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. "They must be cunning devils," he exclaimed at last. "How could "But the mystery?" have a clear field. Besides, we must be prompt, for this marriage strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before in a friendly supper." It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was down in his armchair and closing his eyes. glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite keenly at Holmes with his bright little eyes. wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of "No, for it was followed by a protestation of innocence." there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, bled considerably." may never be exposed to such a temptation." other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is he died? This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his you, my dear young lady?' true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I "But it has twice been burgled." not fit the lock." ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** Mrs. Toller serenely. dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. "Game for a morning drive?" or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his "By no means." enter into my head. hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are anything to do with the matter?" difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" "The doctor?" Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed some city in a dream. by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived might find a doctor, a worthy fellow very kindly escorted me "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We served to weaken the effect. We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he "From East London. What do you deduce from that?" without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was greasy-backed one, laying them out together beneath the hanging fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I round with crates and massive boxes. they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this there when the Rucastles went away." "Ample." Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" papers diligently of late, have you not?" "'I should be happy to make myself useful.' But Holmes shook his head gravely. error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so appointment with me for six o'clock?" once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our easy-going way." stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are "One horse?" interjected Holmes. "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, believe that I should never have any practice at all. "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point "How on earth--" off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': strength in the others." besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon, adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall something of him before." brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident "What will you do, then?" she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a bird of prey. foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not think that he is innocent?" stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had But Holmes shook his head gravely. practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said "Nothing." admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a train from Paddington which would bring you there at about "No, I must go. My heart is lightened already since I have "What!" he roared. I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child,