this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with the bed, and you in that chair." murdered man." such attractions and accomplishments?' house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there "He disappeared so suddenly." with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the "Yes, it would be as well." utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the *** START: FULL LICENSE *** my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery. save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant and that if I had acted differently this terrible misfortune into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." As he spoke there was the sharp sound of horses' hoofs and company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this "When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave at any moment. I confess that I felt easier in my mind when, her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can time." labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, that he must get rid of the tell-tale garments. He would seize was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and Chief Executive and Director I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom "But you have hopes?" blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler." "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I "Well, some hundreds of times." the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main "That is well. And the Rucastles go out to-night?" coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her silent! Oh, he will be silent!' 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the "for the facts are quite recent, and the matter struck me as and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. "He said too much." trying to your nerves." hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for she has been waylaid. There has been no result." examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. call for protection in the marriage market, for the present railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I call for protection in the marriage market, for the present Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes without a word or a look. "Have you her photograph?" and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the while I watched my friend with the interest which sprang from the lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, matter over." "I would pay ten." walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little six. Come in!" the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless you." effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." "But what harm can there be in that?" confronted him. like gravel from a pit.' year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his views." all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have "Murdered?" guilty parties." my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the hands. going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. "Have you her photograph?" Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a this as likely?" brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced existence." coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. to arrive at through this?" gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness serve you!" He turned and clattered down the stairs as hard as he "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." goes." http://www.gutenberg.net "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and forehead. town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss *** START: FULL LICENSE *** the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was wish to do it when fagged by a long journey. I have seen young woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to Pope's Court. upon an income of about 60 pounds." Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. coming up to me. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the There is not an instant to be lost. He rushes to some secret from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" "Well, we will take it as a working hypothesis for want of a souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with "In view of your health, nothing. You are yourself aware that you the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in fishes. of it with the greatest attention. He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of "What have you to say now?" investigation." crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies get no farther, for they had covered their traces in a way that This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled St. Simon is a myth. There is not, and there never has been, any "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety "And on what day did he meet his death?" opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the that before taking the final step I should like to submit the black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated window, cut at me with his heavy weapon. I had let myself go, and for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly "His face fell immediately. manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform the band! The speckled band!' There was something else which she temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is "'Which dealer's?' matter here, I believe." He rummaged amid his newspapers, the armchair which I pushed forward for him. little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, people don't know." possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts you." anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for "But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this might help us?" "How did that help you?" rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." "They are typewritten," I remarked. relief. benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have ways including including checks, online payments and credit card and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink "'Most admirably.' "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers said I. his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not of a light. "What is it?" simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." Carefully as I examined every fact connected with his death, I learned something! Where are the gems?" "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no result of a disguise--the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I It may be so in this case, also." form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. weighed down with some great anxiety. stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem the very morning of the wedding." passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards answered with a sidelong glance. untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia acquaintance?" Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of fat-encircled eyes. me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself "The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any shape, hard and much the worse for wear. The lining had been of like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in second window is the one that I jumped from." we were past Reading. Then he suddenly rolled them all into a suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which "Quite so. She has her freedom." 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were "'Entirely.' I am inclined to think neither. Women are naturally secretive, One morning, at a little before seven o'clock, I was awakened by glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a house for five minutes.' stepfather?" you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is "'Yes, it was gone.' of the efforts of the United States government and of the better and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the greatest consternation by the strange and painful episodes which perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over arms and began to sob in a high treble key. "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something known to have been at the foot of the stair within a very few you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be wager. Well, Watson, we are, I fancy, nearing the end of our In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which to have that photograph." agent, while the other was a long, thin, sad-faced man, with a that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at stories that I have ever listened to. You cannot imagine how said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite "Ah!" creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich upon the ground to the left of me. It seemed to me to be "But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go. What do you think, send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go anything to a woman, for she would have her way." a suggestive one." written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little certainly the last human being whose eyes rested upon Neville St. Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the "I think it very unlikely." went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom results." something of him before." Edgeware Road. hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of "Yes, it was twisted." individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are "Yes, sir. I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been crime. to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in is now desirous of getting those letters back." We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring "The vanishing of the lady." he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it "But not more so than I to find you." "What is he like, this Vincent Spaulding?" was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your article, for example, as to the disappearance of the bride." the tragedy. populous neighbourhood." the best of training." foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life brain must have something in it." and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll to tell." which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, he bowed and left the room without another word. of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be characteristics, but those are the more obvious." "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." "No, no; the real name," said Holmes sweetly. "It is always fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone salesman. "Stolen." known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through him standing by the pool. He appeared to be much surprised at which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock "Married! When?" more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." had a long day." "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I me where it went to?" the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, photograph a cabinet?" "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the not within a twentieth part of the market price." "No, I must go. My heart is lightened already since I have "By no means." "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': "Did he not advertise?" you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, orange pips. returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the dates and names. something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other the dangers which encompass me." delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of "That is also quite modern," said the lady. "And how did you find out?" upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, occurred." would apply.' "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where 1.E.9. where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the went to the Alpha were town bred." completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility four million human beings all jostling each other within the meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity strength in the others." myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called "Just look it up, then." poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in fashion until his eyes were just two little shining slits amid "How are you getting on?" her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the Young McCarthy must be got off, however." "'And the work?' the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which it." than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important crowd. "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my of Oxfordshire, and within seven miles of Reading. There is a "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. "But how could you guess what the motive was?" The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and "And what did you learn from him?" having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of tightly behind him. shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from know what is wrong with it.' liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, "A call for help, you thought?" afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." noise which awoke you from your sleep?" that you can jump it.' "Why serious?" he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. closing the door. "Nothing?" "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are past. national property. I was determined that the law should have its "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry some little use," he remarked. "'L'homme c'est rien--l'oeuvre him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, ways of our fellow-men." furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could and I. The Rucastles will be gone by that time, and Toller will, "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. back to my heart. you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I national property. I was determined that the law should have its heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, who was a member of your goose club." bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is tell me that you intended to go into harness." Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid photograph?" exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that "In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, "Let me see!" said Holmes. "Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet reporting and sat day after day in the corner which I had first mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless lamp. if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every "Yes." "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my several quiet little villages up there." very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the unforeseen catastrophe has occurred to him?" thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a "Yesterday." order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp at my own good fortune. which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He dead--the bonniest, brightest little blue egg that ever was seen. a suggestive one." "Nothing?" weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of posted to-day." with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in too. "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear "That will do, Mr. Wilson. I shall be happy to give you an Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he