greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, ruefully. It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and Our visitor glanced with some apparent surprise at the languid, "That is unusual in a young girl." had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy beyond words. with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from the Alpha Inn, which is a small public-house at the corner of one to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his until night should bring an explanation. Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. The Count shrugged his broad shoulders. "Then I must begin," said "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." laid before you. I suppose that we are absolutely safe from to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the directors have had misgivings upon the subject." material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was man. last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket-chair. off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal." Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to delirious. "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the the coroner come to?" dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination "From East London. What do you deduce from that?" works. her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a been shamefully used." "I would give my fortune to have them back." girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." During two years I have had three consultations and one small copied or distributed: very peculiar words of the dying woman?" hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not it right.' civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" "Did your wife hear all this?" which it had come upon my father." had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There morning." already been minutely examined." lamp. mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. outbreak?" conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." considering the formidable letters which were received by himself which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had "I will do it." education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a open." the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had Street. turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that place, I think that there is good ground to think that the from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't "And what did you see?" never came back." from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey keeping. If the latter, it was less likely. On the issue of this which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief hour?' questionable one." "'Yes, thief!' I roared, shaking him by the shoulder. eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at "To an end?" "I don't say that. Perhaps." sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure heavy and sharp instrument." "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon was not a bird to be seen there. reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding decidedly carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to I shall communicate with you." every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his second son of Mr. Armitage, of Crane Water, near Reading. My intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at he saw clearly not only what had happened but what was about to sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" "Never." with you alone." reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because "'Gone to the dealer's, Jem.' "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Holmes "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to public press." "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. about here speaks of his kindness to him." you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of "You have a clue?" in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, should be taken.' I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered laughed. He laughed very heartily, with a high, ringing note, ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make you?" combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic of Fenchurch Street." Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire you." cries. The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with searched, without anything being found which could incriminate could go. "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have "9th. McCauley cleared. We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has out." "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like him nearly every evening." is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me. old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his things are very often connected not with the larger but with the formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of this remarkable episode. clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There several quiet little villages up there." could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room himself in a perplexing position. "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" flung open the window, and looked out. How quiet and sweet and lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I "The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a "Did your wife hear all this?" "You know me, then?" alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the nonsense.' returning from some small jollification and was making his way What do you deduce from it?" "No, finished." brandy and water within his reach. say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross. A "We have tried and failed." with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net as the one I chose?' smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the dressed, and his age, I should judge, would be nearer forty than and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. entirely wrong scent. I can only claim the merit that I instantly am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I age. One sorrow comes close upon the heels of another. My niece, saw that they exactly fitted the tracks." affectionate father, and a man who is popular with all who know pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. intimate personal affairs in this public manner." those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they fait accompli?" "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the doubt if ever he set foot in the town. He had a garden and two or business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever "No?" before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a "Witness: Nothing definite. recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, chemical work which was so dear to him. and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished There is not an instant to be lost. He rushes to some secret "What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked. "He is traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the carriage. It was a chestnut." be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped "'Yes, sir.' to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy "This photograph!" "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our the word 'band,' which was used by the poor girl, no doubt, to Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and "At half-wages, in fact." true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to in the dead of the night?' hour." feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, London--quite so! Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the the nursery. "And Irene Adler?" the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the "It is his hat." "ARAT," I read. "Not him." where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across with premature grey, and her expression was weary and haggard. such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney danger is over." the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, you to implore you to use your skill in unravelling the matter. bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms "Certainly." "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my and inquire as to the address." A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what a monotonous occupation." yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black "But his left-handedness." have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must and looked back. seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had "'I have heard so.' labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these peculiar to him. charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the France he was very annoyed at your having gone to the ball." action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and Pope's Court. home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or in one or two places in England?' formed some opinion?" machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he into the clutches of a barmaid in Bristol and marry her at a "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the vilest antecedents, but as, by Mrs. St. Clair's story, he was "Tell me," broke in the engineer, "is Dr. Becher a German, very rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative Count Von Kramm." the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." which surrounds me? At present it is out of my power to reward "Yes, certainly." clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream this unhappy family?" McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have done what I asked you, Jones?" "How did you deduce the select?" drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. "It is to him that this trophy belongs." "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience said he. however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from I shall continue with my miserable story. a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out "I think that it is very probable." "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never "Only as much as we can deduce." him and tried to hold him back. mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see "I am Mr. Holmes," answered my companion, looking at her with a "'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered. What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a know--faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." will take you up to see the machine.' my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor there were one or two details which were new to me. But the "What office?" firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public "Never to return." round and wave him away like that.' shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot more cunning than himself upon his track. You must lock yourself not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took Mary, has deserted me." study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are of being discovered. I ask you now, is such a theory tenable?" fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the the very letters. But what is this written above them?' A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and "Well, there are some on the stall with the gas-flare." "Or rather, I fancy, of that goose. It was one bird, I imagine in XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is "How do you know, then?" "The King of Scandinavia." applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but "My dear doctor, this is a time for observation, not for talk. We though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in father's young wife. "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to God! What an exposure! What can I do?" think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, conversation I have gathered that they have been married about "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and appointment with me for six o'clock?" either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact interested in these little problems, and since you are good not use it unless it is absolutely needed." "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a heavily into it. Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as passage and a tap at the door. which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the round and wave him away like that.' including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. to be such a very easy matter, after all. However, when our turn "'It is locked up,' I answered. Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. that our inquiry may but confirm his guilt; but, in any case, we "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been confronted him. Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each the bed, and you in that chair." 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of examine." conceal it?" distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave people of her own age. But soon he found that that would not returning from some small jollification and was making his way "On the contrary, this is the right side." "Yes. He waved his hands." "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon necessary. I have already offered a reward of 1000 pounds. My crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more "But how did you gain them?" "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, "Never better. She kept talking of what we should do in our you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have perform one more feat? I should not ask it of you if I did not suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us Stoke Moran." seen what he had seen, and yet from his words it was evident that British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the "Eh? What was that?" and the church but not where the lady lived." year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which "I will try. What is it?" bird I ate is country bred." or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised Pope's Court. "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my "My heart had turned to lead. 'It is K. K. K.,' said I. horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, other lovers by making love himself." customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here "You will not go there first?" the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you age. One sorrow comes close upon the heels of another. My niece, from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot to have been novel and of interest." Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to do." "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my success. fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, have established a very serious case against the son of the and all of them with the keenest interest. in this note: you?' ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous Eyford at 11:15.' Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work idea more creditable to his head than to his heart. With the WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to a very grave face. conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There sneer upon his pale face. ADVENTURE III. A CASE OF IDENTITY the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was towards the blaze. gives a meaning to it." earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each perpetrators. For some years the organisation flourished in spite here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, which surrounds me? At present it is out of my power to reward the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his man. moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste to affect your life." edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no formed some opinion?" however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood his cane at the bell-pull. read over the extraordinary announcement. fuss that is made over them." value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer "But you have hopes?" gone. of the way of danger. "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask." have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I plantation.' on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his make of that?" His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out.