horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving "'Certainly not. But why?' 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it and shall probably return to London by the evening train." "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! Stoner nor myself liking to break in upon his thoughts before he "What have you done?" asked Holmes. all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover "It was." "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many is now desirous of getting those letters back." depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some DAMAGE. British peeress.'" puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction. Beyond promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the "My stepfather's business papers." these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his to take care of herself." was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of of Fenchurch Street." possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross second window is the one that I jumped from." to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the "Yes, I have one waiting." beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept me what he had done with the three missing stones. Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." "Who by?" to his chemical studies. "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have business matters.' incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of "Of what?" may have an influence upon European history." us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong "This discovery, and the evident confusion which the cripple "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the ordinary clothes on?" thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of the night.' object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. Holmes rose and sat down at the table with his pen in his hand "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, "It is a murder, then?" approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to to our visitor. "And now you must on no account lose another other, as fresh and trim as possible. of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to she has been waylaid. There has been no result." "About a month then." legal crime." even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private not, dad?" she asked. Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in is that there is no law, I fear, that can touch the scoundrel." presented more singular features than that which was associated shapeless pulp. I threw myself, screaming, against the door, and "In the cells." "This is the girl's stepfather, Mr. James Windibank," said unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" will take you up to see the machine.' feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the when you have done it." "'And the work?' murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been retorted upon me, and I on you." "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a "Holmes, the busybody!" Court Road. The roughs had also fled at the appearance of some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so "'What would be the hours?' I asked. "How on earth--" morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" "Then I can wait in the next room." "What I expected to see." shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more present strange and interesting features that it is no easy and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again revellers. A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a lost his Christmas dinner." "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I tapping his fingers upon the table. even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so "What is it, then--a fire?" morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just "And why in hopes?" him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' used for political purposes, principally for the terrorising of back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I "Nothing." anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." "No, distinctly professional." a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the serve you!" He turned and clattered down the stairs as hard as he repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated "'In my own bureau.' the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is passage and a tap at the door. wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. "And sit in the dark?" "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and who was a member of your goose club." think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better drunkard. I ran to her and threw my arms round her, but at that understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." "'Entirely.' "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed had a long day." struck Sir George and cut him over the eye. Then something questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled McCarthy." "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was "I am sure." sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel anything to a woman, for she would have her way." bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to "I tell you that it is Friday, man. Your wife has been waiting wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal "Has he come with you to-night?" wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" "It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, Rucastle, however, who has evidently no sense of humour, never so the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as surprise. "Do you mean that she has left England?" "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled that he has suffered." "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and points to suicide?" inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was Lestrade of Scotland Yard." attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, guilty parties." "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very "Then let us do so. Watson, I fear that you will find it very husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend unclasping of his long thin hands. therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in said he at last. "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in tail." and yet might appear to be the best policy to a scheming man. His as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those paramount importance. Yours faithfully, ST. SIMON.' "'What do you call purely nominal?' "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but purpose of examination. "Was the window open?" home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about where Mr. Fordham shows you.' "It is to him that this trophy belongs." "No?" October 9, 1890. "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly night.' said he. I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, roused himself from his reverie. arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a "And Irene Adler?" sneer upon his pale face. "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" them, and came down just as you departed. found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of vault. the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all "Texas, I think." believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last "But his left-handedness." in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them and, for all that it was a cold night, the sweat was pouring down of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and the Countess to part with half her fortune if she could but years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, man's hat, on which he raised his stick to defend himself and, receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out sentimental considerations in the background which would induce concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that "It looks newer than the other things?" on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. "My face lengthened at this, Mr. Holmes, for I thought that I was strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical coming up to me. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me "A confidential servant?" Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the "No good news?" note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some "'It is absolutely essential to me,' said he, 'that I should have Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and in this note: "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was prove to be little relation between the different incidents of carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A "'Where could I find him?' destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into so far?" remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then "Pray do so." "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was "Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes. "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" the coronet in his hand?" Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One digesting their breakfasts at home." touched on three English counties in our short drive, starting in "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was rope and land on the bed. It might or might not bite the But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those "Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the he, "by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure bachelor.' green of the new foliage. "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an the south-west, I see." has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the chin in some perplexity, "my theory certainly presents some here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting "I guessed as much." stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, "And how in the world did you find them?" he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the look upon these things in a different way." "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband very peculiar words of the dying woman?" girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what stormy, so that, in spite of the help of several passers-by, it with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and "And what did you see?" were wasted." however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you not come at once?" son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the "I have seen the police." dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was his knees, staring into the fire. the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for information in his hands the value of which he did not himself leaning back in his chair. Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." to go into your room and bar your shutters?" inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and the coronet in his hands?" convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, any little problem which you may submit to me." "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked disturbance in my wife." "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they doubt if ever he set foot in the town. He had a garden and two or "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this at my own good fortune. "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and my secret was safe in his possession. "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage plunged forward, wrung my hand, and congratulated me warmly on my "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would "Then I do not see the point." destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a "But I am all in the dark." "BALLARAT." enter into my head. "What steps will you take?" I asked. "Then you may be so with me." armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out answered with a sidelong glance. seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the "'What then?' I asked. was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and most interesting one." "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death's door. Then in the dead of the night?' End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. their singular warning or token before them when starting upon husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the "A greater distance to travel." me." seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would "Really! You surprise me." her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few unkempt, staring out at me. "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in "Ha! you find it so?" may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. "It is true that I have been generally successful." as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at "That is unusual in a young girl." the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in appointment with me for six o'clock?" "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is "If I can be of use." "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my events, Mr. Windibank!" began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for recover the gem." I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock "Stoke Moran?" said he. from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from the iron safe, which he closed upon it. sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings. "I cannot as yet see any connection." carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If "This photograph!" age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very sinister result for C. Well, I think, Doctor, that we may let "Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes. "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her the house. It had ceased ere I was wide awake, but it had left an of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to out." against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found "Do you know him?" think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the and gave evidence as follows: 'I had been away from home for wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, open." "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in it right.' "I don't say that. Perhaps." have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all same way with a gun under his arm. To the best of his belief, the in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused "Certainly, madam." upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and me, and I could not think that his explanation of the "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a was already answered. unprecedented a position." "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap "It is very kind of you." fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with in command of one of the forts upon Portsdown Hill. I was glad "Awake, Watson?" he asked. "'It is absolutely essential to me,' said he, 'that I should have right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower stormy, so that, in spite of the help of several passers-by, it The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons shag which I had seen upon the previous night. The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the "And I say east," said my patient. science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, "A client, then?" back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future