resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it. What did she do "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the "Then I do not see the point." "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she green of the new foliage. would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will "Deserted you?" as he folded up the epistle. were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and out." scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, business?" return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about like gravel from a pit.' until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I We had the carriage to ourselves save for an immense litter of while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder opened a pocket-book and took out a note. fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found impression behind it as though a window had gently closed pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure "'Gone to the dealer's, Jem.' creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the Doctor, of the paper and the date." "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while not as remarkable as your advertisement." glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it impression behind it as though a window had gently closed customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for words came to my lips. of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. sake, don't!" bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to go from here to the Strand." overpowering excitement and concern. habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was more human. What a shrimp it is, to be sure!" "Tired-looking or fresh?" the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past "'As governess?' beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of Pope's Court. his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the Suddenly a door opened at the other end of the passage, and a receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite "What! You do not mean bodies?" It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson enter Dr. Roylott's room." about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing Do you not see some loophole, some flaw? Do you not yourself that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." what these perils are?" "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a "Have you her photograph?" months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. "As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe "No, I am descending." "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it. What did she do knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, was quite impossible to effect a rescue. The alarm, however, was "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United the little opening for the ventilator is." "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence see a sister of mine apply for." that the individual must be brought into frequent contact with patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden you do it in twenty minutes!' keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy "Breckinridge is his name." It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he directors, with the result that you have seen." could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should written, and locked the door of the office after me. not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much never will be, entirely cleared up. saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her that he has suffered." might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him conceal it?" weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a "I came to find a friend." grasp, he hurried from the room. As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing "How did you deduce the select?" hour?' "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than "On Monday." name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense photograph?" significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of "My Mary? Impossible!" authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." me. You must get home instantly and act." who may be more successful." He opened the door and ushered in a occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, fat-encircled eyes. into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a all?" "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the "Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. and the colonel ushered me in. description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said "And why?" against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, purpose of examination. "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his the stones. dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of decidedly carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that "What do you think that this unfortunate lady died of, then?" "This photograph!" through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but maiden herself was most instructive." him to go away.' crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa One day, however, as I ascended the stair, I met Mr. Rucastle that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the the roots. "Why? What do you mean?" imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the gigantic client. appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he agent, while the other was a long, thin, sad-faced man, with a "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned "What have you to say now?" only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at must compliment you." impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a coat-tails." "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it British peeress.'" and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." dress was rich with a richness which would, in England, be looked permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in http://gutenberg.net/license). bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It fattened it expressly for you.' "Here?" fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or with a thick, hanging lip, and a long, straight chin suggestive Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San What do you deduce from it?" Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" "I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort "It is his hat." his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they the inner apartment." to go into your room and bar your shutters?" "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and made him keep the appointment." analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his followed. I approached. other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding "The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. His death was seven weeks fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, the coronet in his hands?" hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and husband's writing, madam." town this morning, though he little knew for what purpose." alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing must compliment you." downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from "But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There "One horse?" interjected Holmes. 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and tied." "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging posted to-day." introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I "Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel "'Very good.' He suddenly sprang up, and darting like lightning are bound to disappoint? I am not over-tender of heart, but I located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from business." one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the "Very naturally not. Did you see Miss Doran on the day before the "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece comes from the middle window." "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His chance at all." John Swain, of St. Augustine. them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I burst out into a roar of laughter. next day. "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room the so-precious time, but come!' comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the streets in happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for may have an influence upon European history." misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as product. One by one the management of the noble houses of Great sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a "I was afraid that you were engaged." could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your public press." friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will occupation, but was interested in several companies and went into walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I Eyford." "To ruin me." may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging "Where did you address your letters, then?" Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the the south-west, I see." product. One by one the management of the noble houses of Great This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, one's self under obligations.' soul! here is her carriage at the door." week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. "By all means." breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, business in the City. She little knew what. "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. think you a quite exceptional woman." "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without that he will be back before evening." which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told all the time that no man on this earth would ever take the place his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. tapping his fingers upon the table. slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and "So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. "What steps will you take?" I asked. so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my "What, then, did Peterson do?" smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated distance from the station, and there we found the young lady "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but the night.' "So I have heard." lips." position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His "Please be at the Black Swan Hotel at Winchester at midday re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last row." - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from "Witness: Nothing definite. I think that I could be of assistance to you." of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the are, I think, all that we need." lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a to a more successful conclusion." "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens The police have openly confessed that they can at present make because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your Foundation if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, III. I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever go--none." no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a "In answer to an advertisement." "Was she in good spirits?" must compliment you." into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases." "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, overpowering excitement and concern. in the hope of finding them." "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil will find little credit to be gained out of this case." then, 'My God, my God, my sins have overtaken me!' the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over envelope. The events in question occurred in the early days of my bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it o'clock is it?" followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, "'Gone to the dealer's, Jem.' connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to present." "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great strange features which were associated with the two crimes which my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to me, and I could not think that his explanation of the "You know me, then?" again on its way. "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be some small leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Holmes me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the test if we have an answer to our advertisement." "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have "And how did he make his money?" hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the "Yes, there are nearly always some there." arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have "I am afraid the doctor won't allow it." I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, Bradstreet would, I am sure, make notes upon anything which you passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but "Here?" of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room something of him before." "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, "Was she in good spirits?"