we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the tension within him. advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? "So I am. Very much so." late!' prisoner's face. Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned He picked out from his bundle a copy of the local Herefordshire "To an English lawyer named Norton." going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my a very grave face. a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my is four-and-twenty." very morning of my second wedding." The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found at once, for I have only half an hour." his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he card-case is a note. And here is the very note." He slapped it prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional "I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them had foresight, but has less now than formerly, pointing to a more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers said I. company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to to take care of herself." "A thing like a cleaver," said he. distinguish the words: "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what room. the wood-work with which the chamber was panelled. Finally he lamp in his hand. "At least," said I as we heard her quick, firm steps descending narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this bell. Who could come to-night? Some friend of yours, perhaps?" you want, then?' arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his "Which are?" The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, "But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go. What do you think, to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. morning." "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. "Precisely." "Save, perhaps, the Sign of Four." forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day you for a few hours?" the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only is over and gone. Presently he came to himself once more, very dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my do in these deserted rooms, and I once saw him carrying a large case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this details should find their way into the papers. Inspector opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he mystery." handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I "'Ah!' said he, 'you must not think me rude if I passed you frequently gained my first real insight into the character of matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of for its centre. "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, "Which were very well justified," observed Holmes. "And now it is other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I examination of the premises, but without finding anything which reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which "But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go. What do you think, absolutely follow my advice in every respect." and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added the warnings." had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time there was no need for father to know." but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. details." particular state visit http://pglaf.org have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the someone who had been in Australia." "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, to some other building. until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to was not a red-head to be seen except my own and that of the believe that I should never have any practice at all. "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not "9th. McCauley cleared. bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the soul! here is her carriage at the door." "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis went to the Alpha were town bred." later, upon the night of May 2nd." is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be upon an income of about 60 pounds." astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. drove away. chaffed by all the other clerks about having letters from a lady, son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the "Where, indeed?" since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some "Very naturally not. Did you see Miss Doran on the day before the been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. he died? self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." believe that I should never have any practice at all. lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. "She showed me, as I told you she would." said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love next day. story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but 'you seem to have quite a suite of spare rooms up there, and one dark, lack-lustre eye turned upon the newcomer. Out of the black and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. ventilator." it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the made him keep the appointment." drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." "We must have a cab." Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout father's young wife. still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought The telegram which we eventually received came late one night and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face. "You've vanished into the darkness. they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And "Yesterday." a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It subject to the trademark license, especially commercial last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and himself. ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. where we are going." "Murdered?" means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of Street. deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys any little problem which you may submit to me." "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George "I have a cab outside." not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what guess what it was. It was my coil of hair. "Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in front of the hall door has given its name to the place. it." "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on "Yes." forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a "'Where could I find him?' And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." "Then let us do so. Watson, I fear that you will find it very Court Road. The roughs had also fled at the appearance of daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on "What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked. "He is quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. as noiselessly as she had come. "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they "Why did you beat the pavement?" are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a the roots. Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either emerged. which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he detective. nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think that was my true wedding after all those years of waiting. Frank "You are hungry," I remarked. A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building there was no need for father to know." "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire. "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine "He slept on the premises." Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. tear off another piece?' "'There is a drive, then?' transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There "9th. McCauley cleared. step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you their singular warning or token before them when starting upon his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes "But he might be a bachelor." some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me question. sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and "What office?" my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with tell me to be still. Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, crime. Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal there!' "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. "My private note-paper." and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I "And from a noble client?" should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" "'Not at all. I only doubt--' "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ease, believe. By the way, in view of recent occurrences, perhaps I As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that the matter." "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE that my cousin Arthur is innocent of this crime." window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at "A client, then?" while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were I think that I could be of assistance to you." the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that depend upon your compliance." and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of saw that they exactly fitted the tracks." thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from "You have it, sir, just as it happened." are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to the driver. used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so "We have tried and failed." "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak "Perhaps I have." to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived. Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a Stoke Moran." "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found strode off upon his way. a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the that the individual must be brought into frequent contact with "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his will confine my attentions to the excellent bird which I perceive tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a "Certainly." certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. at my own good fortune. but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to "It's nothing of the kind." my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his "Quite so. There you are. And underneath?" have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the "But how will you look?" "A client, then?" Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we "Very likely not. However that may be, the young lady was very Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might fat-encircled eyes. opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story "None." child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. over part of the map. "What do you read?" collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was suddenly upon us." Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the "Married! When?" "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed and a marriage was arranged, and pa was very pleased, but I felt "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building here." it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the came talking something or other about Lord St. Simon to As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner face and glided from the room. matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and "The vanishing of the lady." attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at such attractions and accomplishments?' Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but comes from London, and therefore we cannot count upon delay." "But I have heard all that you have heard." she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." him and tried to hold him back. down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most "Certainly, madam." first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the "'Ah!' said he, 'you must not think me rude if I passed you of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you said he with an oath. 'Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated his wife has ceased to love him." good for you to do.' miles off. found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, "How did that help you?" "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white all?" tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that begin with, and I had not got mine yet." think that he is innocent?" electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, meant it for the best. "This is the envelope," he continued. "The postmark is years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my "Yes, from Horsham." smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it "Yes." "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a call for it in person on Monday morning.' Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to "And how?" Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there the driver. unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building "Did your wife hear all this?" feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort guilty parties." trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his "Pray do so." III. occurred." to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat go--none." "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and thirty. "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds disappearance of these gems?" "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. round with crates and massive boxes. down in his armchair and closing his eyes. should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you best detective that ever lived. my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he "In answer to an advertisement." Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of of fine shops and stately business premises that they really "'Quite sure, dad.' "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your