of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth extraordinary contortions. "'In my own bureau.' of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." "'And what salary do you ask?' goes." was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, "Ha!" said Holmes, looking keenly at her. "It is clear that Mrs. go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I a room. I am not easy in my mind about them." With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I into her hand at the door and which lured her within their the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the me have 200 pounds?' "Yes; and he seemed to think, with me, that something had very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church peculiar to him. "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a his cane at the bell-pull. "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast dressed, and his age, I should judge, would be nearer forty than gigantic client. "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." "Certainly." feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my "Certainly, sir," said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent "The doctors examined her for it, but without success." Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. "Really, Mr. Holmes," said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have occupations.' TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 said he. been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." "Quite so. She has her freedom." and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got "Certainly, sir," said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he "'Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter. It is a with you alone." treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. it. and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. soul! here is her carriage at the door." King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' you. If you can enjoy it in peace, well and good! If you find you must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you "Perhaps we may make them less so." business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a used to be." Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied "It is to him that this trophy belongs." quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable been shamefully used." stories that I have ever listened to. You cannot imagine how strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police "Ah, thereby hangs a rather painful tale. This fellow is madly, Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom "But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should on such a day and at such an hour. But I take it that it is more have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he "It is his hat." from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to to have that photograph." chosen, inspiring pity by my ghastly face and filling my pockets from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden him from endeavouring to communicate with her. So much is fairly "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly what do you think they found in the pockets?" time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived. purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. I have a vague impression that as I ran forward something lay "And the murderer?" happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard the little opening for the ventilator is." do you make of it all?" making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My "Were they all fastened this morning?" nothing of it?" perform one more feat? I should not ask it of you if I did not assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to "Then, come. I am all impatience to be gone." all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had "I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were "Please be at the Black Swan Hotel at Winchester at midday "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the "Tired-looking or fresh?" "But how?" whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall despair." "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's "There is the writing." "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going "You have done well indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall "If I can be of use." down from London to inquire more deeply into it." my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him. quite distinctive." you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have entirely lost his self-respect." "Experience," said Holmes, laughing. "Indirectly it may be of the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to chill to my heart. where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and or in danger--" "And how did you find out?" suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which "'And the work?' brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the or in danger--" You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where the tragedy. If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the that colour. From all I hear it is splendid pay and very little to its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I fat-encircled eyes. again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered advertisement had upon your fortunes. You will first make a note, "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet signal between you and your father? appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of "Where did he live, then?" made him keep the appointment." outbreak?" these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, "No legal papers or certificates?" quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong rooms." back his son; but I had gained the cover of the wood, though I did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it finer field for an acute and original observer, but the other was purpose of examination. the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a me. You must get home instantly and act." heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a "But you can know nothing of this?" propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than "Do you go out much in society?" End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the made him keep the appointment." "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of taking in every detail of the apartment. nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where for the market.' observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as "Stolen, then." reporting and sat day after day in the corner which I had first Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the were quarrels, and this, I am sure, was one of them." boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand "Which surely he restored to their owner?" reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a "Absolutely none." would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend amused." always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." Leave Paddington by the 11:15." "'Never.' and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I the name of 'Colonel Lysander Stark' engraved upon it. Close at the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no the date of his supposed suicide." "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in "It is possible." have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, "May I see it?" once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did or who would venture to set him free. I slipped in in safety and his knees, staring into the fire. with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square assist you in forming an opinion." matters immensely." nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was "Yes, and I confess that the contents startled me beyond measure. Watson. He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with "'Tell me all about it,' said I. October 9, 1890. "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation "In what way?" asked Holmes. was quite impossible to effect a rescue. The alarm, however, was "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they heavily into it. few hundred pounds.' intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait it." particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety that, and I came down." pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." "Then I shall certainly come." head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite France he was very annoyed at your having gone to the ball." good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get his wife has ceased to love him." LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His "No more words. Get out!" fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling Countess of Morcar's?" bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your overpowering excitement and concern. yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut instincts rose up against that laugh. about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock of the freedom which it gives. I sent John, the coachman, to know that the truth is known." "An accident, I presume?" set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your him a price for the stones he held--1000 pounds apiece. That Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded "What! a murderous attack?" system of imprisonment?" "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End "Then you don't think I'll see him again?" that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we "Quite so. Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer. "BALLARAT." tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey interest. They are important, you understand, without being strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. followed. are, and they are waiting for us." for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." "And on what day did he meet his death?" the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence made him keep the appointment." assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me. clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project what the meaning of this extraordinary performance could possibly your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man gradually away as each new discovery furnishes a step which leads half-raised in her eagerness, her body slightly bent, her head people in all walks of life. "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped look out of my bedroom window about two o'clock in the morning. acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he "'As governess?' assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have during that time.' Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, civilised land here, and we can't have tomfoolery of this kind. uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both Holmes' thin, eager face. of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until the ground, and sitting still. It was a long fight between my the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the everything of importance, but you have hit upon the method, and Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of there in twenty minutes." well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. thin legs towards the fire. if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy sentimental considerations in the background which would induce "I was also aware of that," murmured Holmes, settling himself "No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said of the one which your family is now devouring." wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a heavy and sharp instrument." to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." "Your presence might be invaluable." distinguish the words: "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made the inner apartment." is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or "Some years ago--to be definite, in May, 1884--there came to Lee "'Never mind. I'll have the other, and I'll take it now,' said I. appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any ran thus: previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to "Then, as to money?" to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently possible detail from your lips. As a rule, when I have heard some Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most the nursery. to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own 'please.'" clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear "Whose house is it?" that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes "No, but the enclosure is." eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," "'Which dealer's?' he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you cigar and let me expound." morning." imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for exactly what you advise." and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the "Precisely." Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been companion. drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could It was close upon four before the door opened, and a "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our "And how did you find out?" you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a very peculiar words of the dying woman?" standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the "I don't say that. Perhaps." that you can jump it.' second." "Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story "It is possible." to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other clang of the bell. sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on might help us?" "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any done what I asked you, Jones?" were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to "You did not overhear what they said?" maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. been deceived." transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a "You think so, too?" End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by chair. When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the carried out of court." "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has is worth.' you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general "Have you her photograph?" his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining details." The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater I have it here in my museum." "Then comes our expedition of to-day. By an examination of the once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as door?" There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." was a loud and authoritative tap. exceedingly remarkable one, and I shall be happy to look into it. gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a which I could not give. He asked for Alice. you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms Swandam Lane on her way back to the station. Have you followed me that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, also thoroughly examined, with the same result. The chimney is and put his glass in his pocket.