you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey "The best possible." "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of "Quite so. There you are. And underneath?" "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door sofa. This way, please!" shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them society." "You were travelling in the States?" to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket." He waved his relation between them, and what the object of his repeated "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked in this note: Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. he. in a friendly supper." "About a month then." permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations and files of the old papers, following the future career of every "Then I can wait in the next room." "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to "'Oh, no.' Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem "Your presence might be invaluable." familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for "Where is it, then?" crackling voice. flung open the window, and looked out. How quiet and sweet and "How did that help you?" "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small "He said too much." with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good This is what he says: in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table Mary, has deserted me." gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our me. You must get home instantly and act." "But not more so than I to find you." knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at wedding?" "Yes, I have one waiting." cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope that there was nothing in it, after all." Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his "I see no marks." his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg." will he say when he returns?" 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she shall use the carriage to-night." "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the from you?" already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any the room while you explain this matter?" "May I see it?" uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' security.' I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now Nights, with no explanation save that the things had been paid "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I meanly of me." As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. it. and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this as he remarks, very much against the son." the one as in the other." Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in "It missed him, then?" At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four this order might lead to other ones. On the other hand, the face With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate "And you can do nothing until then?" has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon initials, is the very note which was no doubt quietly slipped We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the "Yes." "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a "There has been some villainy here," said Holmes; "this beauty and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with think, you have already met." had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming him and tried to hold him back. I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the learned something! Where are the gems?" office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and matter." of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more for the market.' "What have you done?" asked Holmes. "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT to-night?' feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I putting in the horse. Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this "Just look it up, then." man. with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's "When did it break out?" the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all Rucastle, however, who has evidently no sense of humour, never so these bleak autumnal evenings." "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a "Nothing?" leaving America. Men at his time of life do not change all their "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more into a deep I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner "It came here." estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking "I cannot imagine." repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you your own bird, so if you wish--" rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds "Well, we will take it as a working hypothesis for want of a appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of goes." of Fenchurch Street." there when the Rucastles went away." the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third the place where our red-headed client carried on his business. of which were open. They each led into an empty room, dusty and morning." "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you "What!" he roared. "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" passage and a tap at the door. "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in "What! You do not mean bodies?" "And how have you succeeded?" who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are without a word or a look. "Pray do so." Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. gbnewby@pglaf.org Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It town this morning, though he little knew for what purpose." dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let think you a quite exceptional woman." all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of "Or rather, I fancy, of that goose. It was one bird, I imagine in from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long also thoroughly examined, with the same result. The chimney is of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?" mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its money should be paid at once.' "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open he, "this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may very peculiar words of the dying woman?" had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. "May I see it?" rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the "What! You do not mean bodies?" has little to do with my story." way in everything. smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his Count Von Kramm." Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. "At what time?" could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes. It was a to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is "You have it, sir, just as it happened." from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in "We must have a cab." putting in the horse. laid before you. I suppose that we are absolutely safe from greatest consternation by the strange and painful episodes which little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the "How about poison?" Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' sinister result for C. Well, I think, Doctor, that we may let out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case client, rising. his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. "Here we are!" said Holmes cheerily as we filed into the room. grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would inquiry. I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic handed it to him. I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden American. Then who could this American be, and why should he life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just "Holmes, the busybody!" carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with "'It is locked up,' I answered. course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds disturbance in my wife." "How long did she speak to this Alice?" Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed that I may have something better before very many minutes are Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. looking up at the numbers of the houses." cup of tea. "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed "'Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter. It is a pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. "It surprised me." quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are her child which weighed upon her mind, for I have never met so I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband should be so warm over such a trifle." girl said." it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency hardly wander." "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. question you as to those details which seem to me to be most clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white "No, no; the real name," said Holmes sweetly. "It is always "It is half-past ten now." the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to ran free in a mining camp and wandered through woods or "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding "It is very kind of you." spark where all is dark to me." long narrative. who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most coming up to me. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. posted to-day." "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was the dangers which encompass me." the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal green of the new foliage. asked. foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry "They are typewritten," I remarked. your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." strode off upon his way. bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it "Married! When?" pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in things are very often connected not with the larger but with the "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven brain must have something in it." year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Holmes heavy and sharp instrument." ways of our fellow-men." generous with you in money matters.' and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, their mission. You see how quickly the deed followed the sign shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of "Good God! What a week she must have spent!" secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for "The circumstances are of great delicacy, and every precaution us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. "Did he not advertise?" Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf "I have a cab outside." possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature excitement. that?' indeed which he could not unravel. St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and charge against him will break down." "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness look upon these things in a different way." him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum and laid it on the table. arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination "'Surely it would be better to take no notice.' evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I The Black Swan is an inn of repute in the High Street, at no sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a "Here is the slip and here are four letters from him." you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be which should have the effect of calling the attention of the to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" bled considerably." "Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official "Your presence might be invaluable." rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I habit of advancing money.' grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal "Yes, only one." room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. "Because he was handy and would come cheap." eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very golden eyeglasses. very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls these bleak autumnal evenings." was shining brightly. "'I should be happy to make myself useful.' Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." was shining brightly. the running down." sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." suspect him." outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room down. "'In my own bureau.' of." my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I "Nor running a chance of arrest?" again on its way. done what I asked you, Jones?" "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away must compliment you." his eyes. "I trust that I am not intruding. I fear that I have by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, highroad, where all traces were lost. arrangements." your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had "'Yes, sir.' strength." It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a "The Cedars?" "'Don't be frightened,' said my employer, laughing at the start "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, gravel-drive which led to the house. As we approached, the door since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; "Not particularly." seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached way in everything. "None." charged with?" sending a line to pa, perhaps, to show him that I was alive. It "It is very kind of you." she used." docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he affection." should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my "And the cigar-holder?" of the way of danger. "One horse?" interjected Holmes. him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest For additional contact information: have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I "Oh, the cause is excellent!" thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through already referred to. Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a "Let me see," said Holmes, standing at the corner and glancing actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the during our short interview, but I am afraid that I must remain breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of upon the shelf for the interim." the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different "'Where are they all, Maggie?' I cried. came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman "But what will you do?" "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and