request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other "The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin Henry Baker is a member." and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest learned something! Where are the gems?" reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." "But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." "VIOLET HUNTER." and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project You want to know what became of those geese?" "No." misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked "Pray tell us what has happened to you." himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all "I would give my fortune to have them back." office, my clerk entered to say there was a gentleman waiting who "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, gone. "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen outside." "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a place of silver." "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net carried out of court." "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever up this clue while it is still hot." in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts prison!" there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he "Were there gipsies in the plantation at the time?" leave you to your papers for a little." did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of "I have solved it." "'Where to?' "No, but the enclosure is." "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" into the room. "In the cells." "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." a good hundred miles off by now." unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. directors have had misgivings upon the subject." was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had Sherlock Holmes, with his finger-tips together and his eyes to "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge "And why?" other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and absolutely follow my advice in every respect." Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon "He disappeared so suddenly." instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in "'In my own bureau.' friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him yourselves in at night?" you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in "And how?" 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this "Pray do so." in. "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door beg that you will break it off." works. daring than any effort of the imagination." At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left once more on the important position which you have been fortunate lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative in some way, and if you will not let me have it, then I must try observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite some place of shelter and let the county police know what has idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over business in the City. She little knew what. leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with is that there is no law, I fear, that can touch the scoundrel." not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such of a book, octavo size, no water-mark. Hum! Posted to-day in shadow pass over his face as I spoke. that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, something of him before." stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am the unpleasant night which seemed to be before me. Was it all to of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked said I. building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole behind me. broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had photograph?" arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps answered with a sidelong glance. built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the fire. You quite follow me?" "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I "On the contrary, this is the right side." think that he is innocent?" insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given front of me. which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the presence could be of no help to them in their investigations. "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what jewels which you have stolen?' Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was "'In my own bureau.' digesting their breakfasts at home." "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the "Well, but China?" it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." residence of the great financier. "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so do you make of it all?" "But how could you guess what the motive was?" writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the Of course I never doubted for a moment that my first duty was now seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or and looked back. served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: he, "of course you can hardly avoid publicity. On the other hand, salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed and manner of my patron had made an unpleasant impression upon "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he this case, Watson, if there is nothing else." protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, I leave." nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. "There is some building going on there," said Holmes; "that is the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. the iron safe, which he closed upon it. were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom events occurred which I am now about to summarise. I had returned "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account presented more singular features than that which was associated enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may shoes and a bride's wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my "How did he come?" "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as "Then how many are there?" information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." the Museum itself during the day, you understand. This year our "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your "What! Had he lost his wife?" "And on what day did he meet his death?" Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused business." smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning know what is wrong with it.' "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell "You'll never persuade me to believe that." "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in situation." to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are The note was undated, and without either signature or address. think, you have already met." 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length were quarrels, and this, I am sure, was one of them." c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming it right.' lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a orange pips. a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as "How did that help you?" iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue "Murdered?" return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon answered with a sidelong glance. sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and populous neighbourhood." now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' confirm the strange rumours which have been so persistently Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest for here, unless I am much mistaken, is the person in question." state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless entirely devoid of interest." my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his Stoke Moran." you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see suddenly upon us." are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is saw that they exactly fitted the tracks." enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner "Breckinridge is his name." anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. me, and I could not think that his explanation of the "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing "On Monday." The note was undated, and without either signature or address. of it with the greatest attention. and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of forecastle of an emigrant ship. took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her yet." it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. "I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the man. I know him from the photograph." not personally threatened." "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. and your relations to her." "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' writing, and yet I know it well." safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to "And I to find an enemy." "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook round the room. All was as we had seen it in the daytime. Then "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he "Then I shall certainly come." "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I know that the truth is known." invisible to me," I remarked. pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up that I am arrested." of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back "But of what society?" evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the "It is possible." death, I am ever your loving,--MARY.' "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent "'Yes, I promise.' the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon their singular warning or token before them when starting upon provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to way in." sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" "I say that I have solved it." a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I "He's gone for the dog!" cried Miss Hunter. British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for said he. make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had been shamefully used." your troubles." "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my "Ample." before, for it was considerably after midnight. everything of importance, but you have hit upon the method, and however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, walking." which I speak. On the very first day that I was at the Copper "I had hoped," suggested Holmes, "that you would have joined us "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; three of the beryls in it, was missing. clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my over with notes and figures. slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable License. You must require such a user to return or "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all or who would venture to set him free. I slipped in in safety and and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two As he spoke there was the sharp sound of horses' hoofs and difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" gone. worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a tell them apart.' found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed "No, she was in her night-dress. In her right hand was found the heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he friends, not even his own brother. address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the snatched it up and examined it. One of the gold corners, with twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds "The King of Scandinavia." desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece "No, finished." paramount importance. Yours faithfully, ST. SIMON.' safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to end of a long light ladder against the eaves. That is how he did what is your own theory as to what took place?" has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a him to be an active member of the medical profession." but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my "It seems to me to be a most dark and sinister business." cigars in the box." I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being success. your co-operation." every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the delighted to hear it," he said. closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in and wait." "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. future. As it is an open secret that the Duke of Balmoral has before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him. "'Oh, no.' himself. Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A Pool. shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had woven round him. "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the I leave." "It is solved." "Whose house is it?" of this gang." Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could in excavating fuller's-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out window when the police appeared." and it need not interfere very much with one's other into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger John Swain, of St. Augustine. "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions laid before you. I suppose that we are absolutely safe from but unfortunately I had no capital by which I could do this. I crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining becomes even more simple." to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. "Which surely he restored to their owner?" better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting when it fell. The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase "And how?" framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar approach us with offers to donate. conversation I have gathered that they have been married about would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell shoulder. profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought "Here?" which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, Christmas morning, in company with a good fat goose, which is, I could not account in any way for the presence of the missing "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. "It goes to the housekeeper's room." found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry "What then?" business." acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes," in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young