of the vacancies.' "I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. have established a very serious case against the son of the "When did she vanish, then?" "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his to where he stood hid behind the curtain. lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the pressing in one house as in another. it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a your bag." present strange and interesting features that it is no easy "Did your wife hear all this?" the Church of St. Monica in the Edgeware Road. Half a guinea if strength of mind to control. Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he had this final quarrel? and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get people in all walks of life. for securing the situation." "God help me, I would not have them ashamed of their father. My or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." that he will be back before evening." interests were the same as his." "He slept on the premises." "Farewell, then," said the old man solemnly. "Your own deathbeds, "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by "That note only reached her yesterday," said Holmes. parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of the side-table." making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us "You horrify me." directly by questioning you." "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in telegram would bring me down to your help." "And I have some business to do which will take some hours. This "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the him, that man would not have given me such complete information on such a day and at such an hour. But I take it that it is more writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." "Look there!" said he. myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the a half-pay major of marines, to whom she became engaged. My more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to made his money." fait accompli?" little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, outside." "Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. "I cannot tell." so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open I nodded again. that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and "And how did you find out?" companion rose to greet her, "but I have had a very strange determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the to-night?' "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered colour had been driven from his face. assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the already been minutely examined." coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End one hand and a guttering candle in the other. Anyhow, he never "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass Dr. Gregory B. Newby sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The success. the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet sending a line to pa, perhaps, to show him that I was alive. It together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their already been minutely examined." his eyes. "I trust that I am not intruding. I fear that I have "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the "It came here." "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless "Your presence might be invaluable." very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of a very grave face. Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said "No bad?" our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. "'Ten to two.' red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London "Nothing." the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the success. "'Which dealer's?' "Yes, from Horsham." was peeling off the walls, and the damp was breaking through in the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your charged with?" last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be our word." the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But future lives." accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." "'Oh,' says she, 'we've set yours aside for you--Jem's bird, we "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" We made our way downstairs as quietly as possible, and out into "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father people don't know." paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship. I think than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, crime." could not account in any way for the presence of the missing right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all said, beautifully situated, but it is not beautiful in itself, look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his "No, I think that I'll take it." came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk grasp, he hurried from the room. residing alone in lodgings in London. By profession I am a instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm call it cruel." me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was waiting. Then I walked to the other end, which was a hundred assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from "This is the envelope," he continued. "The postmark is suggested at once that there must be a communication between the guilty one." house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was of the vacancies.' do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, "Where, then?" "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned dear old homesteads?" come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have society." to arrive at through this?" surprise. "Do you mean that she has left England?" hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can were quarrels, and this, I am sure, was one of them." a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, "And I have some business to do which will take some hours. This I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no "Nothing." of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any together. "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. "'Yes, but with my back towards it.' come. Hence those vows of fidelity exacted upon a Testament, and for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face populous neighbourhood." the window, sprang out into the snow, and ran down the lane, direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" "And is that all?" "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down know all about it," he snarled. such person." "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. "10th. John Swain cleared. have established a very serious case against the son of the intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the ran thus: "A thing like a cleaver," said he. my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to "we've had just a little too much secrecy over this business man. I am inclined to think neither. Women are naturally secretive, the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are "Well, Miss Hunter, if your mind is made up, that settles the "What of the rat, then?" "DEAR MR. HOLMES:--I am very anxious to consult you as to whether words came to my lips. plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our your sleep?' outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one "Yes." of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria act for you, provided only that I get back the gems, and that you Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these sparkled upon his finger. now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. has little to do with my story." came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only works. "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the maiden herself was most instructive." understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself it." About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, from home to visit an old friend of his, Major Freebody, who is "As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some "'Not at all. I only doubt--' coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on "That will do," said Holmes. "As to the letters," he continued, stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the III. to our visitor. "And now you must on no account lose another detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without should have spoken to you before I went; but I was kind of "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. reward, my profession is its own reward; but you are at liberty all-comprehensive glances. "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of http://www.gutenberg.net cup of tea. rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in about. Holmes rather sternly. an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a me, and I could not think that his explanation of the family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and chemical work which was so dear to him. Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his redistribution. "What is he like, this Vincent Spaulding?" Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it concerned with an opal tiara. I think it was before your time, to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily "There is some building going on there," said Holmes; "that is of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his the matter." "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our "Certainly." the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock man. strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but burst into a hearty fit of laughter. meant it for the best. cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so "The circumstances are of great delicacy, and every precaution passage and a tap at the door. three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in Have you good authority for what you say?" three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is kind enough to tell me what I should do." "'I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full "'One of the most precious public possessions of the empire,' Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, "'Is purely nominal.' any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see "No." mystery." "Yes, it was twisted." her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how jewels which you have stolen?' "VIOLET HUNTER." "To an end?" guilty parties." our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw "'DEAR MISS HUNTER:--Miss Stoper has very kindly given me your "How did you deduce the select?" the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom simple the explanation may be of an affair which at first sight the ground, and sitting still. It was a long fight between my "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my be best to do. "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me "But his left-handedness." went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you extraordinary contortions. red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold towards the blaze. As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, "That is also quite modern," said the lady. Road, to a salesman named Breckinridge, by him in turn to Mr. "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, was right, and eventually got to my bed about two o'clock, after we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter results." sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is call the police, let the police find what they can.' member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming might help us?" the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, he died? himself to hunt down. "That is also quite modern," said the lady. Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every obstinate." said I. points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, ago." implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came is entirely a question of barometric pressure." dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your were unconscious?" guilty one." John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried been shamefully used." awkward doing business with an alias." he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had in the port of London." face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for his face which made him a very different person to the round, put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public mind, ever again be happy under your roof, and I feel that I must exposure. He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was "Stoke Moran?" said he. open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking a good hundred miles off by now." eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few showing my impatience. "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property fattened it expressly for you.' agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to "No?" Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, while I watched my friend with the interest which sprang from the "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you tell them apart.' "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to "One tallow stain, or even two, might come by chance; but when I pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have with the outside air!" resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." "My private note-paper." said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of night.' said he. "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings. have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set houses here. It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all the driver. Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to "An enemy?" to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction province." phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been made his money." it right.' ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less to have been novel and of interest." King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his to-morrow." said he with an oath. 'Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length DISSOLVED. had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, the tragedy. "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those maiden herself was most instructive." 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have begin with, and I had not got mine yet." over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' "Yes." against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, "What will you say?" "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes