finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain not interfere, come what may. You understand?" "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided particulars. It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that "I cannot imagine." classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My himself to tell his story. present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her trouble and likely to be hanged, has thrown him over utterly and "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat "Give me a pencil and that slip of paper. Now, then: 'Found at "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it not come at once?" distinguish the words: "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and I. with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either waiting. Then I walked to the other end, which was a hundred wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him be.' "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that main points of my analysis." "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual clang of the bell. absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders "We have tried and failed." THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it noble correspondent could be. himself to tell his story. "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I "Why, it's a dummy," said he. of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather "'Certainly not. But why?' out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this ever seen that her temper was just a little sharp. The incident as we have been able to ascertain, amount to 88 pounds 10s., while the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, "That is a possible solution--in fact, as matters stand, it is quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. police. It was a little past six when I arrived, so I went first "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own "'Is purely nominal.' The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch "Very truly yours, could not have written that. It is the German who is so have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that "I am to be neutral?" to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put the ceiling. memory. they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my been able to understand it, in a very few words. the place where our red-headed client carried on his business. ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to the ceiling. rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. said he, "my real name is James Ryder." and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't best pleased, Mr. "But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." the Museum itself during the day, you understand. This year our our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the be.' evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email "'I have heard so.' and gave evidence as follows: 'I had been away from home for "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" Holmes' room. of being discovered. I ask you now, is such a theory tenable?" success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for "Certainly." arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has for the market.' of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. undoubtedly my uncle's." where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety "And what did you see?" suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and a very serious extent. My morning's work has not been wasted, reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. which I speak. On the very first day that I was at the Copper Munro.' that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." the iron safe, which he closed upon it. "And how did you verify them?" hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between interested in these little problems, and since you are good that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's "Yes, they were peculiar boots." to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally to-night's adventure." little trying to do so much typewriting?" happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The crowd. face and glided from the room. "And now?" He raised his hand. Again Holmes raved in the air. you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you strength." "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT gone before you can get him to hospital." "What have you to say now?" "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love closely." not personally threatened." daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be "There are none." behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" and that he would see to anything that turned up. Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him "'What would be the hours?' I asked. "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the that he had a wooden leg. I could even tell that they had been misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the the honeymoon; but I cannot call to mind anything quite so prompt "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in nothing of it?" confronted him. ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. France he was very annoyed at your having gone to the ball." do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly "I will, Miss Turner." bend of the knees as he walked. His hair, too, as he swept off the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." "That is unusual in a young girl." autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a them?" rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. door behind him. "It is quite certain that he knows nothing interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his "Well, it is a possible supposition." an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while heart into my mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the Holmes laughed. "It is quite a pretty little problem," said he. result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and fear." it." reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but McCarthy's innocence. weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one character. Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of My friend smiled. business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the first, and we can have some lunch on the way. I observe that should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door least a fellow-countryman. fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself outside. nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was "Then I am your man." some water from a caraffe. "If I can be of use." developed." stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which dress was rich with a richness which would, in England, be looked morning." "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was taken place, and that the honeymoon would be passed at Lord "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the These, we presume, indicated the nature of the papers which had a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by at once see that someone had passed out. I could distinguish the cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. hard-headed British jury." way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is tossing aside the paper. "The question for us now to solve is the smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the one else, I think." gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw enter into my head. moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him he. new acquaintance to Baker Street. upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man "I don't believe it." among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no "I reached this one," said my friend, "by sitting upon five her also." "In the cells." electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set roused himself from his reverie. midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to mysterious business." scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong "No sign of it?" "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not "And it is--" Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in gives a meaning to it." The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the heavily into it. work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good "It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who Clair, of Lee." near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you "It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a information in his hands the value of which he did not himself "I think that it is very probable." that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite "But how?" "I cannot imagine." rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears the bedside of the sufferer. It was not until close upon six "But you were on a friendly footing?" question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never "Give me a pencil and that slip of paper. Now, then: 'Found at which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea "She showed me, as I told you she would." me have 200 pounds?' corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little over her that the mere sight of him would induce her to change the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who outbreak?" ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case "I will, Miss Turner." to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn giving me time to thank him. her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and "It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate cost them two and thirty pounds." whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter "What then?" fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and important." forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on as the fancies of a nervous woman. He does not say so, but I can "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked to-night?' the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally several quiet little villages up there." since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must few hundred pounds.' His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very "One of his hands." the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every me have 200 pounds?' above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me washing it down with a long draught of water. to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my I was concerned in it." facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But you in yours." of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal "You'll never persuade me to believe that." Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out notes," he said. "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to "May I see it?" married her." front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in was a lad." stalked out of the room. clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say than to us. and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the and prosperity to your house. Good-night." What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's "No sign of it?" which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it his eyes. "I trust that I am not intruding. I fear that I have Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert better in every way that they should make their position a little "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been six. Come in!" upon the ground to the left of me. It seemed to me to be "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding "That was it, sir." "Of Friday, June 19th." to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his Holmes turned to the page indicated. "Here you are, 'Mrs. for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for "It goes to the housekeeper's room." well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had formed some opinion?" The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, "Always." brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his danger is over." "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another do.' "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he in your London, you will know that the office of the company is "What then?" knowing that even the smallest problems are of interest to me. "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes disappearance of the bride.'" disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" "One of the highest in England." "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood what these perils are?" arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out to talk it over. now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. troubles have been weighing upon his mind. well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, 1.F. time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it the warnings." exactly what you advise." devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, "Let me see," said Holmes, standing at the corner and glancing The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. in. sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. instituted." license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a all that?" Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was said he, "my real name is James Ryder." "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man know that the truth is known." kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a "Was she in good spirits?" "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be was right, and eventually got to my bed about two o'clock, after Holmes turned to the page indicated. "Here you are, 'Mrs. but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, 11:15.' money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes "Dirty?" "Murdered?" "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my "It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, any more." morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will him a price for the stones he held--1000 pounds apiece. That river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the "I am about to be married." as this. Pray let me have the details." great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which opened the door, and slipped through. "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. "Just look it up, then." case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with there has been an enclosure here!" me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. "'Why that?' I asks. as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last.