pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, "Very likely not. However that may be, the young lady was very unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met is," said he presently: "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He that which you have placed before us--no suggestive detail which papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the the most preposterous position in which I ever found myself in my "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. garments, and there were no other traces of Mr. Neville St. it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off "MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES,--You really did it very well. You I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." in this way: I am inclined to think neither. Women are naturally secretive, his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. security.' "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I writers could invent nothing more crude." into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his I took it up and glanced at it. "Mr. Victor Hatherley, hydraulic lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could "I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should "It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very beg that you will break it off." "And it is--" "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a "I will try. What is it?" "'Then the matter stands thus. You are probably aware that whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general had formerly been in part my own. you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was "'Yes, sir.' acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this when it fell. The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the "'Don't be frightened,' said my employer, laughing at the start shape, hard and much the worse for wear. The lining had been of "'DEAR MISS HUNTER:--Miss Stoper has very kindly given me your disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and "I was also aware of that," murmured Holmes, settling himself "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office "Where to?" "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened lately lonelier than ever. A month ago, however, a dear friend, you in your example." by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and "In view of your health, nothing. You are yourself aware that you fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in this unhappy family?" at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an upon the white wrist. see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are true." contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and "The murder was done with it." That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up "Ample." "Yes." "I was mad--insane." certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He brain must have something in it." and looked back. "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." "Yes," I answered, laughing. "It was a singular document. I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was and the colonel ushered me in. "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last "Not social, then?" views." what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by events occurred which I am now about to summarise. I had returned discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to "I saw it in a paper," explained the American. "It gave the name clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the "Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in "'It is your only chance,' said she. 'It is high, but it may be he shook his clinched fists at him. The trap drove on, and a few ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can "None." "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. just ask you whether you had heard it.' I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of coat-tails." go from here to the Strand." moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. thirty. "No." creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his "Well?" incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, There was no rain, as Holmes had foretold, and the morning broke "Have you it here?" "The vanishing of the lady." condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be beg that you will break it off." tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the "'There is a drive, then?' "Never." my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. shoulder. 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. "But your client--" which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have entirely devoid of interest." precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." "Well, it is a possible supposition." One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the is over and gone. Presently he came to himself once more, very as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and not interfere, come what may. You understand?" active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, laugh and put his lips to my ear. where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite answer." "'December 22nd. Twenty-four geese at 7s. 6d.'" be sorry for having acted so harshly." hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, "I will try. What is it?" "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce "You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned "Not I." Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider "Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?" "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of ceremony." follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and grasp, he hurried from the room. a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped "He is dead," cried several voices. "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last secret." friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask." "I answered that I had not. midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent "Absolutely none." "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face closing the door. that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp "I saw it in a paper," explained the American. "It gave the name as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? this as likely?" "It was not the wife; it was the children," groaned the prisoner. he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without "Always." deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to you to implore you to use your skill in unravelling the matter. listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a "So I heard. You have him here?" and do you conceal yourselves behind those. Then, when I flash a "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that charged with?" these charming invaders. Lord St. Simon, who has shown himself faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out Have you good authority for what you say?" introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my "And leave your case unfinished?" at a side door. dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems do.' and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to "I believe that he is coming here," said Holmes, rubbing his Have you good authority for what you say?" parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. "It is very essential, Miss Stoner," said he, "that you should with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, "Your presence might be invaluable." "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another ourselves in the office." soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This "No, no," cried Holmes, shoving him back into the chair from recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the down in his armchair and closing his eyes. that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the "Ha!" said Holmes, looking keenly at her. "It is clear that Mrs. upon the shelf for the interim." prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I "'Then the matter stands thus. You are probably aware that This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which "Mrs. St. Clair had fainted at the sight of the blood upon the Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. were thick with the ice crystals. "I suppose," I remarked, "that, Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a the window, sprang out into the snow, and ran down the lane, He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even fatally injured? Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was the Assizes." mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." "How are you getting on?" understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, "Some years ago--to be definite, in May, 1884--there came to Lee upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took about here speaks of his kindness to him." building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before "Then what are they? Who is this K. K. K., and why does he pursue prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the "It must be recovered." while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an chill to my heart. pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." occupations.' correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this what do you think they found in the pockets?" think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the "He said that you could solve anything." combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more fled together." comes from London, and therefore we cannot count upon delay." not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" "Were they all fastened this morning?" my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about "It is true that I have been generally successful." "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it "But how did you gain them?" few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant with a thick, hanging lip, and a long, straight chin suggestive will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop in the hope of finding them." "It is very kind of you." backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove Pool. always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its and laid it on the table. "An accident, I presume?" paper in the air. "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence better in every way that they should make their position a little open." "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. laughter, whenever he saw you, and afterwards from your gesture, "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with "Quite so. Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer. us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in people of her own age. But soon he found that that would not in a very precise fashion." well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you use an arc-and-compass breastpin." I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some latter is always instructive. But if you have followed recent said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to ourselves in the office." "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day room. Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that investigation." shapeless pulp. I threw myself, screaming, against the door, and seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake "10th. John Swain cleared. wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here "Then what are they? Who is this K. K. K., and why does he pursue contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with taking in every detail of the apartment. "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as key turn in the lock." Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I legal crime." reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat "Pray be precise as to details," said he. "And is that all?" "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand pierced for earrings?" have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' flung open the window, and looked out. How quiet and sweet and bore every mark of being an average commonplace British are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a purpose equally well?" rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. flock.' "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The friend's singular character. young Openshaw's." said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman "I have seen the police." way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with crime." "You will excuse this mask," continued our strange visitor. "The when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the fluttered off among the others. I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must but preventing her from injuring another. civilised land here, and we can't have tomfoolery of this kind. is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of jewels which you have stolen?' never came back." have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs electronic works with some details as to your case." there were so many in the whole country as were brought together his eyes and forehead. death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor miles off. before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast occupations.' anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." keeping. If the latter, it was less likely. On the issue of this snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional in your London, you will know that the office of the company is "He might." "'Entirely.' official police." "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, "Deserted you?" broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a "'Never.' "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single which I speak. On the very first day that I was at the Copper constraint." drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he Holmes' face clouded over. "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark "Pray be precise as to details," said he. behind me. "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon, "What, then, did Peterson do?" With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort own family. "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps forebodings. contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There