pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been place no limit on the sum I may draw." true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a chamber." very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. learned something! Where are the gems?" day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may "What office?" "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an lost his Christmas dinner." My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I "Never." game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. the address that was given us in the advertisement. to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary everything which you would wish to know." the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more sound at heart." mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had would then never go into court at all." whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project "I warn you that they are very incomplete." "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that should be taken.' in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend remarked. my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two know that the truth is known." over with notes and figures. like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with "On your arm?" ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. ran thus: in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs that you saw all that I did." red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his the dangers which encompass me." you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming have accepted such a situation. to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat photograph a cabinet?" he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a "About a month then." upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." "The circumstances are of great delicacy, and every precaution defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert "There's a cold-blooded scoundrel!" said Holmes, laughing, as he Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but him. "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual more human. What a shrimp it is, to be sure!" But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, "'And the work?' think that any burglar could have done. "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. "By train from Waterloo." beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with "I do." adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it to England my mother died--she was killed eight years ago in a true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." green of the new foliage. stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my "It's nothing of the kind." "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a know all about it," he snarled. PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." which I could not give. He asked for Alice. his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come weighted coat had remained when the stripped body had been sucked position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' "Anyhow, I have grasped one fact which you seem to find it he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to coroner's jury." inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is that the gas is not laid on in his house?" too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor Literary Archive Foundation Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to particular." He shook hands with us and took his leave. Outside if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to through my fingers. I have been at work upon it all day." ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was later, upon the night of May 2nd." Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story "But you can know nothing of this?" him. The singular incident made, as you may think, the deepest humiliation." particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I think that he is innocent?" to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, memory. fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my tied." When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was dangerous men in England--a ruined gambler, an absolutely size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. papers must be those that are destroyed.' "You have it, sir, just as it happened." pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would wanted for ourselves." address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I other, as fresh and trim as possible. of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far him. explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax at home. married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their the honeymoon; but I cannot call to mind anything quite so prompt he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow had a long day." words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. "The vanishing of the lady." "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody me, and I could not think that his explanation of the "'And what salary do you ask?' should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some had foresight, but has less now than formerly, pointing to a some water from a caraffe. creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project their mission. You see how quickly the deed followed the sign the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the compunction about shooting them down." "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an "I have come for advice." brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which to that open window." "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must said Mr. Holder. "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country may never be exposed to such a temptation." Holmes." should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness seen what he had seen, and yet from his words it was evident that one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little Street. clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen the King without delay." "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little absolutely innocent man, who had no idea that the bird which he "That is better," said John Clay serenely. He made a sweeping bow time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His "When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. fear." the roots. "Then, for pity's sake, tell me what was the cause of my sister's the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of sufficient punishment." look dissatisfied." I nodded to show that I had heard. front of the hall door has given its name to the place. St. Simon is a myth. There is not, and there never has been, any stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the it means?" "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to "You saw the ventilator, too?" "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not trying to your nerves." of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were that he will be back before evening." flung open the window, and looked out. How quiet and sweet and "No, finished." was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very the coronet in his hands?" however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the "How long did she speak to this Alice?" hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper so.' cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room and a shock of very red hair. joking. a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in vanish from your memory, as he has done from your life." the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is serve you!" He turned and clattered down the stairs as hard as he plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you of being discovered. I ask you now, is such a theory tenable?" "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had Holmes' thin, eager face. four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I John Swain, of St. Augustine. was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, "The gentleman I describe." beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the "On your arm?" Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been me. "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with also thoroughly examined, with the same result. The chimney is civilised land here, and we can't have tomfoolery of this kind. XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that bears upon the case?" and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed shag which I had seen upon the previous night. Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the learned something! Where are the gems?" few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then "You will leave that question in my hands. I should like an our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done "Well, I did what she said, Mr. Holmes, and I carried the bird "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote "'I am sure that I do not know.' "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with at once see that someone had passed out. I could distinguish the bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came "This photograph!" railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point I held the little printed slip to the light. turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, and I. The Rucastles will be gone by that time, and Toller will, "Pray take a seat, Miss Hunter. I shall be happy to do anything reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my read over the extraordinary announcement. bell. Who could come to-night? Some friend of yours, perhaps?" "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America The Black Swan is an inn of repute in the High Street, at no help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this "I have seen the police." "In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is he bowed and left the room without another word. "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which "Yes?" inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers not as remarkable as your advertisement." knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes. It was a observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard Munro.' you for a few hours?" so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the waiting. Then I walked to the other end, which was a hundred and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my during that time.' we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." entirely wrong scent. I can only claim the merit that I instantly "'Where are they all, Maggie?' I cried. "Not particularly." to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't "She walked into the breakfast-room." "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, generous with you in money matters.' "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to drove away. equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your "Precisely so. But how--" were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, "'It is absolutely essential to me,' said he, 'that I should have in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" the honeymoon; but I cannot call to mind anything quite so prompt To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon arms and began to sob in a high treble key. just called myself is not exactly my own." the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first "I cannot say that I have." uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the ADVENTURE IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?" some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider the bed, and you in that chair." man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. "No." Mrs. Toller serenely. I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings. Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by know--faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive Mrs. Toller serenely. in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have "Ha!" said Holmes, looking keenly at her. "It is clear that Mrs. investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of DISSOLVED. time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique door behind him. "It is quite certain that he knows nothing side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the "Give me a pencil and that slip of paper. Now, then: 'Found at parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this "You have but to name it." "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the the inquest, and which are worth considering." "When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which "Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a bird I ate is country bred." He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all sneer upon his pale face. "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle him nearly every evening." present." His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a John Swain, of St. Augustine. the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded said I. absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy and gave evidence as follows: 'I had been away from home for practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and be sorry for having acted so harshly." central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to "I am following you closely," I answered. hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." the station." "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no could gather together that I was able to avert another public "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't best pleased, Mr. he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of some water from a caraffe. "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said fire. You quite follow me?" "Your presence might be invaluable." whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to head. So long, then!" overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure may have an influence upon European history." your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to wager. Well, Watson, we are, I fancy, nearing the end of our Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, "And that is--" "It was a confession," I ejaculated. "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those that threshold again'--here in an instant the smile hardened into upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the "I have a cab outside." neither fascinating nor artistic." was the fact that his father should, according to his account, and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story Pope's Court. "I should be immensely obliged to you." maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be where Mr. Fordham shows you.' events, Mr. Windibank!" only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of glitter of moisture on his brow. "It--it's not actionable," he Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been "Which were very well justified," observed Holmes. "And now it is what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the