coat-tails." "No. What a strange idea!" American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. that you wished to speak to me?' should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp ways of our fellow-men." his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also." I. Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her DAMAGE. which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of crackling voice. the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the chance at all." have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her felt?" "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses have established a very serious case against the son of the There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. and looked back. long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate astonishment. "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, tangible cause. And now, Miss Stoner, we must leave you for if round with crates and massive boxes. routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That once more on the important position which you have been fortunate "In answer to an advertisement." interested in these little problems, and since you are good 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the "'Ah!' said he, 'you must not think me rude if I passed you to tell." she slowly sank and died without having recovered her clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell paramount importance. Yours faithfully, ST. SIMON.' stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, he, "this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one him from endeavouring to communicate with her. So much is fairly It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I "Indeed! Whose, then?" inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much "Nothing?" you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for lectures into a series of tales." "And the cigar-holder?" dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This "I say it is." events, Mr. Windibank!" week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with "And what did you see?" shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never future. As it is an open secret that the Duke of Balmoral has he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand and the colonel ushered me in. dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at and no precautions can guard against." my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may "You have it, sir, just as it happened." evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge are, and they are waiting for us." forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a "'Never,' said I. before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us "I am Mr. Holmes," answered my companion, looking at her with a "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies Carefully as I examined every fact connected with his death, I wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he in excavating fuller's-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon is entirely a question of barometric pressure." wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. Chief Executive and Director "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you impression of age, for he had a slight forward stoop and a little I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I "No, I think that I'll take it." without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand "But his left-handedness." affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, "No, but the enclosure is." very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and "I saw her in conversation with her maid." "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life derbies." 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his away to you." travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and man. upon the shelf for the interim." "Do you go out much in society?" refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any Arthur Conan Doyle take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. the south-west, I see." father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." several quiet little villages up there." parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm conceal it?" during that time.' however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels." possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered Stoke Moran." "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so in one night. Oh, what shall I do!" of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers have an American origin." name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" He picked out from his bundle a copy of the local Herefordshire and that he would see to anything that turned up. before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." vanished; "I will tell you the true solution of the matter. Lady PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE "What! a murderous attack?" "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to with you?" out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my "Never better. She kept talking of what we should do in our to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I nonsense.' rat could hardly pass through." While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry second window is the one that I jumped from." wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in was stirring. It was twenty-five minutes past four. I had hardly are, I think, all that we need." Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, south, for the country is more deserted there." willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to people of her own age. But soon he found that that would not to where he stood hid behind the curtain. 1.E.9. "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been necessary. I have already offered a reward of 1000 pounds. My to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is "I beg pardon." when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." "Do you know him?" "My dear Holmes!" returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass guilty parties." writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my second son of Mr. Armitage, of Crane Water, near Reading. My "Yes." face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands room?" she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." "May I see it?" said I. things are very often connected not with the larger but with the seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and always that they were such commands as a lady might with "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into I think that I could be of assistance to you." "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, despaired of." other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and ill-usage at the hands of fortune. "Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up." saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the death, I am ever your loving,--MARY.' Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am "Perfectly so." The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would "You have done wisely," said my friend. "But have you told me few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten joking. say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of my face before I came to the Brixton Road. My sister asked me engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, intrusion of other matters." play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this "Certainly." acted in my house last night?" collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just "No, but the enclosure is." about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off is entirely a question of barometric pressure." walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of disappearance of the bride.'" naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & like that before?" here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my death." between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall "Ah, of course, I forgot that. But the writing?" facts are, to the best of my belief, unique." speckled band?" Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly taken place, and that the honeymoon would be passed at Lord "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a bill, which interests me deeply." left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small there was no need for father to know." "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far certainly the last human being whose eyes rested upon Neville St. them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a back alive. taken place, and that the honeymoon would be passed at Lord "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to towards the blaze. finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to "What can you not understand?" that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the During two years I have had three consultations and one small He picked out from his bundle a copy of the local Herefordshire what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this "Pray tell us what has happened to you." across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no "The circumstances are of great delicacy, and every precaution "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the "It is very kind of you." or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and redistribution. one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the "And I say east," said my patient. rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, "You don't mind breaking the law?" would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that "Yes." should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, him to be an active member of the medical profession." have been better. It is all right." nice household for a young lady." vanished into the darkness. up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way that he has suffered." "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Holmes person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence "I should be ungrateful if I were not, seeing what I gained him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite waiting for the coming of its occupant. The house was just such daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was making of a very pretty villain in you. You knew that this man "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of but generally recognised shape--a sprig of oak-leaves in some Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, lost his Christmas dinner." without a word or a look. "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two again, where I was soon asleep. peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." "Yes, sir." friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with Holmes. wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the mystery!" light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We should be so warm over such a trifle." "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of were new raised from a basin. shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This where Mr. Fordham shows you.' red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are the station." "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able again, where I was soon asleep. married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." "What have you done?" asked Holmes. their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I He was a man of about fifty, tall, portly, and imposing, with a "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I "You have it, sir, just as it happened." and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him "'In my own bureau.' shag which I had seen upon the previous night. And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom "A call for help, you thought?" two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his "Oh, yes, easily." adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough man. "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I "'Entirely.' dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, she slowly sank and died without having recovered her that he had a wooden leg. I could even tell that they had been though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And question," said Holmes, smiling. Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help towards the blaze. Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just probably know so much of Rucastle's past life that he finds it bears upon the case?" "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is despair." "I cannot tell." to smoke. She left her room, therefore, and came into mine, where him, that man would not have given me such complete information "Yes, that is the Crown." "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said man. on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper "Ten will be early enough." of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became "Perhaps we may make them less so." "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. "Breckinridge is his name." fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old was it brought him the coronet? really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the "'I am sure that I do not know.' large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have "Yes." upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is "'What, the red-headed man?' nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a "I cannot as yet see any connection." owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would "Did he not advertise?" along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, "I am sure." Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments minor matters until to-morrow." her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us "I would give my fortune to have them back." a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of "In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof woman who has had her own way to make in the world. fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who arrangements." chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert individual and becomes the badge of a society." and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one