the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that vanish from your memory, as he has done from your life." last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not 'please.'" "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly the band! The speckled band!' There was something else which she society." very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without room, and had just observed that the coronet had been twisted in came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." his grey eyes. unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a all that?" "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern "Yes, sir." way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one case. I can make neither head nor tail of the business." forebodings. "Why? What do you mean?" grinning at my surprise, was none other than Sherlock Holmes. He such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." to affect your life." wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg." man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the be terribly anxious, I slipped off my ring and confided it to the the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond "Why did you beat the pavement?" child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To "You have compromised yourself seriously." something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty the roots. had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell which we had just quitted. roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a upon the ground to the left of me. It seemed to me to be if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to "No, I think that I'll take it." "And how did you verify them?" "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain than was visible to me." across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. "What is it?" along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of "It must be recovered." have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." "But it has twice been burgled." About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, useful material for showing traces. The double line a little down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear "My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, me where it went to?" over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed necessary. I have already offered a reward of 1000 pounds. My "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed "'How far from the body?' "'There is a drive, then?' "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your my little problems." can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without and devote an hour to glancing a little more closely into arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross more human. What a shrimp it is, to be sure!" has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, which I suspected. It lay between that and her bedroom, and I was "By no means." "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they "It was not the wife; it was the children," groaned the prisoner. lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known thought that she would have been so carried away." could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. "Was the window open?" until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, "Here?" Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since you in yours." there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what himself to tell his story. squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me. union?" the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" "But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go. What do you think, mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than once more to my work. anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others place--within ten miles of Reading. I was fortunate enough to "Sarasate plays at the St. James's Hall this afternoon," he which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend people of her own age. But soon he found that that would not Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was door behind him. "It is quite certain that he knows nothing "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action of note-paper. It read in this fashion: "Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road--249," read Holmes. better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our "'About the same.' strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, American gentleman, had left only the day before, and on looking not come at once?" details should find their way into the papers. Inspector "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." "Perhaps I have." any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." brain must have something in it." we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than "No." rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just I have it here in my museum." description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is "Yes." Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not the so-precious time, but come!' 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to things are very often connected not with the larger but with the thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!" "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers to flash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked persecution?" "Yes, I have one waiting." come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." "Your presence might be invaluable." joking. more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I think you a quite exceptional woman." more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it at home. "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice "Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian flicking the horse on into a gallop. "I confess that I have been you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations in darkness. sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door "No bad?" "Then that will simplify matters." We descended and started off acquaintance?" theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the "He travels for Westhouse & Marbank, the great claret importers Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, "Always." "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official his forehead." metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether weary and pale-looking. "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire. exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had now. It seems that there had been some informality about their nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are tightly behind him. "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every instincts are. I know that he has done no harm and that you will any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in "Perfectly so." Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it at a side door. "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted "But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen obstinate." Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." "Was there a secret marriage?" "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he I am inclined to think neither. Women are naturally secretive, matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the "'A dozen yards or so.' said he. "And now, Mr. Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us look upon these things in a different way." cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. "My face lengthened at this, Mr. Holmes, for I thought that I was late." being in the central block of the buildings. Of these bedrooms 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate "The murder was done with it." "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to and have this put in the evening papers." Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away Then he stepped into the cab, and in half an hour we were back in "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' "Quite so. Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer. "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce the tragedy. "My private note-paper." wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, "This concluded the examination of the witness." quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done had occurred. A man had waited outside the window; someone had "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must "I would pay ten." with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible "How about poison?" anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four "Then, as to money?" Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the Stoner nor myself liking to break in upon his thoughts before he at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch is a common subject for conversation. "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking "When did it break out?" been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in "'Where are they all, Maggie?' I cried. outsides of the windows. "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little "And you can do nothing until then?" Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his there in twenty minutes." 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life "'Where to?' I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have "She brought, I understand, a considerable dowry?" utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away you in yours." happened." style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated lost nothing by them." will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which "The murder was done with it." round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So sake, don't!" meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the over here." Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE "On your arm?" a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" affair. "Where, indeed?" a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw "Nothing." you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his come either from the window or the door. My attention was the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the nothing with him." with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, neither fascinating nor artistic." foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days "I have solved it." delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little ruefully. It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round "The King of Scandinavia." dear old homesteads?" cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now Holmes' room. are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others in darkness. dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. photograph?" the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. them?" "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a "So I heard. You have him here?" McCarthy." "Well, you can ask the King of Proosia, for all I care. I've had quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." fall upon the page, he begged me to read aloud to him. I read for We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the most important business. It is probable that he will be away all away into the river." observed. than to us. the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the "It looks newer than the other things?" very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took the coronet in his hand?" where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the indeed which he could not unravel. Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It south, for the country is more deserted there." streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the "Why did you pick him?" "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable. Born in 1846.' registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." mystery!" foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in go--none." pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this "I do." you." through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. and shall probably return to London by the evening train." "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a pressing in one house as in another. roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good "Of course you are. You'll know all about it presently. Jump up afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was "You have but to name it." "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has when it fell. The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had unclasping of his long thin hands. have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT Miss Holder?" mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the were unconscious?" herself in evening dress, the letter was superscribed to river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's lids now and glanced across at his visitor. "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler memory. headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version over his head with a sweet womanly caress. "Get out!" said he. "I am glad to hear your Majesty say so." at my own good fortune. Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. province." because she had spent so short a time in this country that she "Just look it up, then." pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, "'Have you never heard of the League of the Red-headed Men?' he pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line police. It was a little past six when I arrived, so I went first to take care of herself." "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more to some other building. every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be the date of his supposed suicide." have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of ashen face. think that he is innocent?" been enough to shake my very soul. Besides, it is not I alone. agent, while the other was a long, thin, sad-faced man, with a was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever paramount importance. Yours faithfully, ST. SIMON.' "I was sure that I might rely on you." paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this awkward doing business with an alias." strength in the others." on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to congratulate you again." to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" in darkness. interested in these little problems, and since you are good yet." little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" "Well, Miss Hunter, if your mind is made up, that settles the "By all means." there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual