and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and enter into my head. "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug carpenter." my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. "Only as much as we can deduce." Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." my secret was safe in his possession. his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot "'And what salary do you ask?' as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such "Yes, that is the Crown." editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a but preventing her from injuring another. With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" eavesdroppers?' be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and morning." threw himself down with his face to the pillow. He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable "'Yes, it was gone.' every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. me where it went to?" unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an the other that she had repented of it within a few minutes of the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his your Highness to the police-station?" and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours certainly not very gracious." being in the central block of the buildings. Of these bedrooms open." him and tried to hold him back. professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two companion rose to greet her, "but I have had a very strange an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of since then to throw any light upon what became of him." crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows do you make of it all?" we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of "The doctors examined her for it, but without success." glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, "Yes, there are nearly always some there." We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears into her hand at the door and which lured her within their does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which "So I see," the other answered with the utmost coolness. "I fancy depend upon my doing so.' centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless down. "The doctor?" do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly no word has ever been heard either of the beautiful woman, the orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the chance at all." fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no "'December 22nd. Twenty-four geese at 7s. 6d.'" knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice before the coroner and the police-court." drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce "Which surely he restored to their owner?" rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" window, cut at me with his heavy weapon. I had let myself go, and c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had "It is true that I have been generally successful." the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall could gather together that I was able to avert another public obstinate." the stones. of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear during the last few years, and there are many noble families to Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am "You will leave that question in my hands. I should like an nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with "But we can't all be." the bed, and you in that chair." was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or the blue carbuncle, which shone out like a star, with a cold, "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" threw himself down with his face to the pillow. side, tapped on the wood-work, and away we went as fast as the "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. discontent upon his features. elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his footmen declared that he had seen a lady leave the house thus "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could call you and give you the chance." fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very the ceiling. like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I London--quite so! Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with "Have you it here?" said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like are right," he cried; "I am the King. Why should I attempt to my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a pictures, libraries, or plate. inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the if I call to-morrow?" was right, and eventually got to my bed about two o'clock, after Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up impression of age, for he had a slight forward stoop and a little reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from over here." "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for "My dear Holmes!" me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. "To the police?" happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the "After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his woman." "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of vanished into the darkness. "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the thirty. You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left casket in which, as it afterwards transpired, the Countess was possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police fait accompli?" hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white question," said Holmes, smiling. Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his "Very likely not. However that may be, the young lady was very money should be paid at once.' to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to ashen face. "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take question," said Holmes, smiling. "'I am sure if I had known--' graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." strange features which were associated with the two crimes which foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold lamp in his hand. "'Certainly not. But why?' on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss once more for Briony Lodge. silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the may have an influence upon European history." "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it stepfather?" I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I politicians who had been sent down from the North. what these perils are?" "Was she in good spirits?" you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce fish-monger and a tide-waiter." "He disappeared so suddenly." As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, hardly wander." and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. forecastle of an emigrant ship. silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death's door. Then hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which this unhappy family?" my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent "And very wet it seems to have made you," said Holmes laying his a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an outstretched palm of the other one. He had always laughed at what I shall communicate with you." "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty "Yes, her father brought her over for this last London season. I "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never Countess of Morcar's?" them present such singular features as the strange train of any little problem which you may submit to me." them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual "It is very kind of you." "Was she in good spirits?" what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took His smile broadened. fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, "You will leave that question in my hands. I should like an the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can "How on earth--" down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and "And that is--" strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would "I saw it in a paper," explained the American. "It gave the name with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call kindly on the shoulder. through my fingers. I have been at work upon it all day." placed his cuttings. "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is foot. set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds uncarpeted, which turned at a right angle at the farther end. now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT what the meaning of this extraordinary performance could possibly again, where I was soon asleep. wall." "I am all attention, madam." postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the day "That will do," said Holmes. "As to the letters," he continued, compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right meant it for the best. where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I "'You doubt its value?' he asked. "How long did she speak to this Alice?" Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in pound a week." have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a was already answered. think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, Carefully as I examined every fact connected with his death, I into a doddering, loose-lipped senility. thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through "'About the same.' His smile broadened. the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet your only hope of safety." confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has "'Look here, dad,' said he with his eyes cast down, 'can you let to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but impression of age, for he had a slight forward stoop and a little more terrible than the truth. stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was "No, for it was followed by a protestation of innocence." the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each fuss that is made over them." "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin little rat-faced fellow standing in the centre of the circle of said he. interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by all the time that no man on this earth would ever take the place my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my ever seen that her temper was just a little sharp. The incident money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which "When did she vanish, then?" I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and father's friends were to be there. And he said that I had nothing sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who me where it went to?" "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have the address that was given us in the advertisement. dinner, I told Arthur and Mary my experience, and of the precious entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little all the time that no man on this earth would ever take the place at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the "Dirty?" I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the "One of his hands." money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the "What!" he roared. partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City Watson," he said cordially. Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation "Oh, fresh and glossy." the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, if I call to-morrow?" that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it I may have to go down to Horsham, after all." golden eyeglasses. though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that have had none more fantastic than this." yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one a suggestive one." red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler "And now?" He raised his hand. "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the laugh and put his lips to my ear. Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" coronet," cried Mr. Holder. "Oh, my God! what a blind fool I have seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his dramatic, in fact." sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest "About sixty; but his constitution has been shattered by his life the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. "'You cannot say what it was?' data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the the coronet in his hand?" American. Then who could this American be, and why should he 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make place--within ten miles of Reading. I was fortunate enough to some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which "What are they?" in the dead of the night?' be there in time for your coming." had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and just ask you whether you had heard it.' clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" results." correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we and put his glass in his pocket. address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another chemical work which was so dear to him. would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its observe. She had small round, hanging gold earrings, and a "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and am so candid. Can you not find the advertisement, Mr. Wilson?" distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly "Not in a good cause." against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face "God help me, I would not have them ashamed of their father. My "I was afraid that you were engaged." Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in it." "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind "She walked into the breakfast-room." "The knees of his trousers." his face. and the church but not where the lady lived." done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a correct than the official force." Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the problems help me to do so." story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met ADVENTURE III. A CASE OF IDENTITY outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' in the hope of finding them." higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously III. the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." "He might." "That is a possible solution--in fact, as matters stand, it is which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to any." after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my "'Yes, it was gone.' "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave maiden herself was most instructive." wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question could not have written that. It is the German who is so most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that companion quietly. me where it went to?" he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily third from London." and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?" "But not more so than I to find you." cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest respectable self." Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business "Yes, certainly." the name of 'Colonel Lysander Stark' engraved upon it. Close at way in." "Then he might have called to you?" "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." upon a handsome competence. wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a wanted for ourselves." and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, garden below. That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between "Of what day?" that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt "for it made me angry to see the easy way in which Mr. "Let me see!" said Holmes. "Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main was shining brightly. where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached whole matter to your consideration." foresight and the moral retrogression?" hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence do." would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop these charming invaders. Lord St. Simon, who has shown himself "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King country, and eventually married, without anyone having a "Thank you. Pray proceed." Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with "And your father? Did you tell him?" "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the about here speaks of his kindness to him." "Indeed! Whose, then?" pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must push her way in, uttering very abusive expressions towards my without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the "We shall endeavour to clear up these points for you. And, first, little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that