his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against thirty. made him keep the appointment." can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. unforeseen catastrophe has occurred to him?" "Just look it up, then." brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. floor. "I assure you that I am in your hands." "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. be best to do. "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged "Certainly." "'What do you call purely nominal?' change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless "He said that you could solve anything." been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of "But she will refuse." to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet "I would give my fortune to have them back." light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no lids now and glanced across at his visitor. commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to difficulties. No one could pass these shutters if they were his cane at the bell-pull. With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a "I was afraid that you were engaged." dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly "Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by into the bag, and made for the door. violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very floor. "Of course! Very right! very right! I'm sure I beg pardon. As to "No?" happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite been with you?" pity, because in other respects you would really have done very when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the away in different directions, and I went off to make my own "Well, but China?" the devil!" left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end assist you in forming an opinion." to have been novel and of interest." broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper what do you think they found in the pockets?" matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon "From his hat?" "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." allusion to a rat. broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes "He disappeared so suddenly." "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor works. the Church of St. Monica in the Edgeware Road. Half a guinea if it." the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard retorted upon me, and I on you." the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the have established a very serious case against the son of the nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do "'What, the red-headed man?' but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do "Lady St. Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her any assistance, either to you or to my friend here, I shall be greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident fall upon the page, he begged me to read aloud to him. I read for the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do looking up at the numbers of the houses." "But I have heard all that you have heard." Holmes' face clouded over. "So I heard. You have him here?" Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of "'Yes, sir.' "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be known to have been at the foot of the stair within a very few "That's no good." of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, "No." a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I or who would venture to set him free. I slipped in in safety and With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and British peeress.'" on in his house." papers must be those that are destroyed.' lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled was keenly on my guard against him. The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email "Well?" "'What do you call purely nominal?' thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from carriage. It was a chestnut." "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the go--none." your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every "No, distinctly professional." spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of "Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?" heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out could go. whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, swore that no one else had been in the front room during the voice was gentle. He'd had the quinsy and swollen glands when he the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding "Yes." line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the been deceived." accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia the dangers which encompass me." Miss Holder?" concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the that I am arrested." Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he paper in the air. you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a and your relations to her." a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to next day. "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said true." of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis "I cannot, and I will not, believe it!" cried the banker with an "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage. One of the "I don't believe it." surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow "I will, Miss Turner." upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk outside." posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), at my own good fortune. difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. "And what then?" good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place bill, which interests me deeply." had foresight, but has less now than formerly, pointing to a of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of long narrative. contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and conceal it?" pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked "Then I do not see the point." Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, "You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death's door. Then he saw clearly not only what had happened but what was about to "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the bare slabs of marble. Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over "Indeed! Whose, then?" skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, sit on the left-hand side of the driver." six. Come in!" engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just "No, I think that I'll take it." comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that have given you all the facts. Since you ask me, however, I may a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the "Is he quiet?" Sutherland?" the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an conclusions. "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a "Nothing." my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from his huge brown hands. an introduction to him?" indeed which he could not unravel. yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' "My dear Holmes!" "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to than to us. grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her "Frequently." should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have have not had my rubber." matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and Miss Holder?" business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are "My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who "'Stolen!' he cried. returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its that which you have placed before us--no suggestive detail which and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all character. "And now?" I asked. a suggestive one." Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be carriage. It was a chestnut." the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock "'Never.' "Why serious?" off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This notes," he said. "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. peculiar to him. posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), "And for present expenses?" "What will you say?" side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement coming to the bed. The idea of a snake instantly occurred to me, or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to round the room. All was as we had seen it in the daytime. Then corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other maid will bring up your coffee." and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though "Let me see!" said Holmes. "Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who Holmes." other until he had gone. We could write in the meantime, and he didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly distance from the station, and there we found the young lady following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had absorbing." "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who call the police, let the police find what they can.' several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long very morning of my second wedding." opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon the bed, and you in that chair." reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it of Mr. Rucastle's." 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with "Of course! Very right! very right! I'm sure I beg pardon. As to nothing of it?" "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips thin, with a long, sharp nose?" "DEAR MR. HOLMES:--I am very anxious to consult you as to whether "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say "I should be ungrateful if I were not, seeing what I gained his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I "When did she vanish, then?" again before evening." Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to one else, I think." little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working "Witness: Nothing definite. four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. "A thing like a cleaver," said he. in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided conduct the inquiry." "Yes." thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster I am inclined to think neither. Women are naturally secretive, "Well?" through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an "Yes," I answered, laughing. "It was a singular document. "I saw an ill-dressed vagabond in the lane yesterday evening," Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from all-comprehensive glances. the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two "What CAN be the matter, then? Can you suggest no explanation?" showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If from the brougham. us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his "To the police?" a little more before I quite committed myself. in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, agent, while the other was a long, thin, sad-faced man, with a perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for it right.' precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We chin in some perplexity, "my theory certainly presents some company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but laugh and put his lips to my ear. said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is "None." of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I is," said he presently: passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from "Have you her photograph?" shape, hard and much the worse for wear. The lining had been of centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had ear. From under this great panoply she peeped up in a nervous, "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin "And how in the world did you find them?" she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of rope and land on the bed. It might or might not bite the be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, "for the facts are quite recent, and the matter struck me as applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but had occurred. A man had waited outside the window; someone had "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key stood on the top of it. other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This questionable one." shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I get the tickets." "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or and retained the missing gems. Even though he knew that Arthur mystery may be cleared along those lines." this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in "But you were on a friendly footing?" one or two very singular points about this room. For example, "She walked into the breakfast-room." impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of be there in time for your coming." have got?" which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that retorted upon me, and I on you." Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was "Holmes!" I whispered, "what on earth are you doing in this den?" This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the "I see many objections to any such theory." "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his and the church but not where the lady lived." "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it arrested. You then--" which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen tell me that you intended to go into harness." had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that room?" him standing by the pool. He appeared to be much surprised at of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the business?" "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler sinister result for C. Well, I think, Doctor, that we may let photograph?" wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of "Why, it's a dummy," said he. discontent upon his features. article?" yards of it?' away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the window when the police appeared." trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head. We both 'please.'" sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings. son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter "I will do it." "The circumstances are of great delicacy, and every precaution "Give me a pencil and that slip of paper. Now, then: 'Found at your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be "'Oh,' says she, 'we've set yours aside for you--Jem's bird, we "But his lameness?" quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light "Pray do so." pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's