did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." that he had gone out of his way to meet it. The matter passed, Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man little rat-faced fellow standing in the centre of the circle of "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the on such a day and at such an hour. But I take it that it is more know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is suspect him." "'Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter. It is a "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the "Very well, sir. And this stone?" crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows "I had hoped," suggested Holmes, "that you would have joined us push her way in, uttering very abusive expressions towards my "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be in a very precise fashion." that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' "But how?" Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite returned to France?" "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's ready to-morrow?' like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. bell. Holmes whistled. despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry "On the contrary, this is the right side." rooms." hard-headed British jury." indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. triumphant cloud from his cigarette. exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." crime." his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, "Absolutely?" "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the "None." "I think that it is very probable." awkward doing business with an alias." Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point could go. little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of "You have a maid who has a sweetheart? I think that you remarked "'I have heard so.' It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to "What is it, then--a fire?" "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to lids now and glanced across at his visitor. he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little serious as its complete loss, for there are no beryls in the head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of "Who was the criminal, then?" "You think that he is dead?" "Then let us do so. Watson, I fear that you will find it very have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most matter." have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo indeed happy." some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There for every poor devil who has been done to death in that den. It Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague I shall communicate with you." usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the trifles." lips." the warnings." "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' to me. previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all There was no rain, as Holmes had foretold, and the morning broke lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known point our research must commence, and we will begin it by stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at The police have openly confessed that they can at present make Watson. He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was "The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. His death was seven weeks some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood "I am following you closely," I answered. seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With have got?" "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since opened the door, and slipped through. should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no "That is not always so easy." eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his "At least," said I as we heard her quick, firm steps descending like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in "Pray do so." By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" "And from a noble client?" immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down been shamefully used." "'DEAR MISS HUNTER:--Miss Stoper has very kindly given me your have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. are, I think, all that we need." girl said." At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for "we've had just a little too much secrecy over this business evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they said, beautifully situated, but it is not beautiful in itself, Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran breakfast and whispered something to her husband. remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of he, "by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush details." the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and "Yes, only one." front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him police. It was a little past six when I arrived, so I went first "And why in hopes?" passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for chaffed by all the other clerks about having letters from a lady, "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" for openness, but I was so ashamed of it all that I felt as if I "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be some small "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which acquaintance?" "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond overpowering excitement and concern. of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to "Which surely he restored to their owner?" than was visible to me." congenial hunt. sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying through my fingers. I have been at work upon it all day." seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were "How on earth--" he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. "At what time?" diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, "I answered that I had not. vanished; "I will tell you the true solution of the matter. Lady are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT DAMAGE. "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my pictures, libraries, or plate. thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without daring than any effort of the imagination." At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for to miss it." through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have "BALLARAT." appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it "Well, some hundreds of times." Doctor, of the paper and the date." return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take all about yourself, your household, and the effect which this house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a "Then how many are there?" corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply "'What then?' I asked. of receipt of the work. Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, only touch the interest." Our visitor glanced with some apparent surprise at the languid, where we are going." "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him. "None." we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for act for you, provided only that I get back the gems, and that you charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, "Not at all. Drink this." I dashed some brandy into the water, in my life." the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good drove away. that, and I came down." accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no there when the Rucastles went away." Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the and that he would see to anything that turned up. client, rising. than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the "I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes. I heard from Major Prendergast business came to an end." up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. father's place of business?" the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where shall not find me ungrateful." business came to an end." return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some several quiet little villages up there." weigh very heavily upon my conscience." direction." my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his had solved my problem. When you drove home after the concert I was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made This is what he says: "There is the writing." gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," "They are typewritten," I remarked. "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner that you wished to speak to me?' call the police, let the police find what they can.' which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on ways of our fellow-men." "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single "I should wish to." "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project call you and give you the chance." admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect making of a very pretty villain in you. You knew that this man why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must surprise. "Do you mean that she has left England?" Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the There is ever a flaw, however, in the best laid of human plans, clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. Mary, has deserted me." "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us "An accident, I presume?" the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were begin with, and I had not got mine yet." with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in suggested at once that there must be a communication between the "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not "Of what day?" should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should DAMAGE. have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement "And who is her maid?" "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I not, dad?" she asked. Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for "This photograph!" here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture "I cannot think." should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. over her that the mere sight of him would induce her to change the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our "And who is her maid?" two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of Gutenberg-tm License. "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. that before taking the final step I should like to submit the "I will try. What is it?" "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." your room." of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you "I was sure that I might rely on you." "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, Clair, of Lee." hour?' instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. At wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect touched on three English counties in our short drive, starting in had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he certainly the last human being whose eyes rested upon Neville St. mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than "Was your sister dressed?" interests were the same as his." outside." papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a the mornings. Besides, I knew that my assistant was a good man, records." "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to 1.F. push her way in, uttering very abusive expressions towards my I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and there has been an enclosure here!" some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish truly as if you had cut the cord which was hanging him. I see the McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a "I will not look." "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a get no farther, for they had covered their traces in a way that I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, bell. Holmes whistled. indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating Holmes rather sternly. Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His "I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that into the clutches of a barmaid in Bristol and marry her at a "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End suggested at once that there must be a communication between the little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me him to be an active member of the medical profession." while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was ways of our fellow-men." DAMAGE. "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, prepare for the new role I have to play." singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have "'As governess?' "Is he quiet?" that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what "Yes, it would be as well." should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one hand, madam?" the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See the window, rose as we entered. little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. which we had just quitted. me, and I could not think that his explanation of the been able to understand it, in a very few words. slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the chill to my heart. "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to demon--'I'll throw you to the mastiff.' dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my "Where is it, then?" "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the definite end. "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. "You know me, then?" and glanced through. "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us away to you." closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Holmes "What CAN be the matter, then? Can you suggest no explanation?" I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, weighted coat had remained when the stripped body had been sucked "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should and have this put in the evening papers." knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is gentleman's clothes. battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs coming to the bed. The idea of a snake instantly occurred to me, She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project "My own seal." not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in "None." "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate "What will you do, then?" "Holmes!" I whispered, "what on earth are you doing in this den?" think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all "'On the contrary,' said I, 'I opened the door myself because I Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both crackling voice. "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest "Yes," I answered, laughing. "It was a singular document. "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, were thick with the ice crystals. "I suppose," I remarked, "that, assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want the struggle and was endeavouring to straighten it when you hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered suddenly upon us." on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at over his head with a sweet womanly caress. doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see." certainly the last human being whose eyes rested upon Neville St. "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a to our visitor. "And now you must on no account lose another after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you room. written. "How do you know, then?" Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I fled together." "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his "Deserted you?" it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to tail." luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault should be taken.' Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very "'Is 4 pounds a week.' *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my "You have but to name it." "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: directly by questioning you." fluttered off among the others. his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." are, I think, all that we need." across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the Literary Archive Foundation was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing think that any burglar could have done. Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. "That is not always so easy." "But she could not love him." "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." "No legal papers or certificates?" star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of "Well?" have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the which surrounds me? At present it is out of my power to reward about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear "Yesterday." case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to vanished into the darkness. derbies." residence of the great financier. "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have "'You doubt its value?' he asked.