I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy what I may call a really hard day's work." relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." was right, and eventually got to my bed about two o'clock, after engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his while I watched my friend with the interest which sprang from the disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary to take care of herself." repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." "And sit in the dark?" 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a human experience this lonely woman had strayed into. The unusual wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took people in all walks of life. you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear sit on the left-hand side of the driver." at a side door. "'Yes, but with my back towards it.' "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it." exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is "My heart had turned to lead. 'It is K. K. K.,' said I. us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, morning." at once, for I have only half an hour." that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his should be so warm over such a trifle." the unpleasant night which seemed to be before me. Was it all to compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, strong and stiff." "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary do." nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" Sutherland?" could see the windows of this part of the house. There were four wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City "I saw her in conversation with her maid." "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the business." ADVENTURE IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the the road. He beckoned to me and then began walking into the Park. "Eh? What was that?" "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend anything to a woman, for she would have her way." force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of "'What are you doing there?' he asked. my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it is of value.' Heaven forgive me for that last sentence, but the you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused "Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it Holmes' face clouded over. honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the in the dead of the night?' discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of business?" against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come "I think that it is very probable." "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at do you make of it all?" half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul Holmes turned to the page indicated. "Here you are, 'Mrs. "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across believe. By the way, in view of recent occurrences, perhaps I and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban We had the carriage to ourselves save for an immense litter of fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, "You horrify me!" "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. One morning, at a little before seven o'clock, I was awakened by "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be lamp in his hand. man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in writer." lamp in his hand. threw himself down with his face to the pillow. "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE and I shall be with you presently." have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian lately lonelier than ever. A month ago, however, a dear friend, the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point over here." "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to passage and a tap at the door. as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong corner of the building. impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot "Frequently." heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." visitors." skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency "Pray take a seat, Miss Hunter. I shall be happy to do anything He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin had this final quarrel? "So I heard. You have him here?" I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, as this. Pray let me have the details." suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of "The King of Scandinavia." The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers details." "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. one else, I think." active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates "Not particularly." accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I most interesting one." long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in other lovers by making love himself." "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I "And what do you think of it all, Watson?" asked Sherlock Holmes, always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been future. As it is an open secret that the Duke of Balmoral has all the time that no man on this earth would ever take the place "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under "Is he quiet?" Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any "The best possible." well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." McCarthy." and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be the Friday. Was it to be in church?" One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the that he has suffered." "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an you in your example." coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the Holmes rather sternly. and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of Holmes laughed. "It is quite a pretty little problem," said he. she used." "To an end?" "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside arms and began to sob in a high treble key. His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he a branded thief, without ever having touched the wealth for which "How about poison?" more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to was the fact that his father should, according to his account, were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and waiting for the coming of its occupant. The house was just such lamp in his hand. have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I second window is the one that I jumped from." the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others "No, no; the real name," said Holmes sweetly. "It is always collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as "I will, Miss Turner." long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles in your London, you will know that the office of the company is safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable. Born in 1846.' once more to my work. deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As "Nothing." their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client "They must be cunning devils," he exclaimed at last. "How could "'I am sure if I had known--' "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and chaffed by all the other clerks about having letters from a lady, "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little "Ah!" in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman of a light. make me his representative both with the servants and with the way in." "And what did you see?" the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was "Well." "The knees of his trousers." didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I that before taking the final step I should like to submit the depend upon my doing so.' "I have a cab outside." reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from of a light. that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, acquaintance?" 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious letters?" foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and human experience this lonely woman had strayed into. The unusual his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his events, Mr. Windibank!" and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a and wait." "None." "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my had died away into the silence from which it rose. She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other "Not him." crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been He walked swiftly round from one to the other, pausing only at "Yes, her father brought her over for this last London season. I on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old "Yes, there are nearly always some there." "Yes?" off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, wall." at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in disturbance in my wife." dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the imbecility!" he cried. that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from surprise. "Do you mean that she has left England?" of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my "No." mystery." "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. she might be summoned. fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are done his duty well and had borne the repute of a brave soldier. even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come this truth that in these little records of our cases which you place of silver." be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us together. "And I say east," said my patient. "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and main points of my analysis." propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' "Entirely." Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and "I will, Miss Turner." lost his Christmas dinner." conversation I have gathered that they have been married about Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. McCarthy." evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until "It is fortunate, for you will perhaps be able to post me up. I window, cut at me with his heavy weapon. I had let myself go, and this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" ran thus: "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask." tear off another piece?' As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society are, I think, all that we need." better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I late." learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I her child which weighed upon her mind, for I have never met so them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my "Yes, sir. I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." threw himself down with his face to the pillow. like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if writers could invent nothing more crude." afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a me what he had done with the three missing stones. from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father "The circumstances are of great delicacy, and every precaution and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. "That is it on the dressing-table." old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss There was no rain, as Holmes had foretold, and the morning broke "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." tear off another piece?' was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little congratulate you again." kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You on in his house." "9th. McCauley cleared. License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this John Swain, of St. Augustine. far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a "Then you don't think I'll see him again?" my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of in the port of London." Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry brought there to personate someone, and the real person is relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had examine." prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the showing my impatience. Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is "Very likely not. However that may be, the young lady was very three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. "The landlord of the Alpha." lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? "Yes, only one." walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten distinguish the words: wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" quick march!" case. I can make neither head nor tail of the business." however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a window when the police appeared." Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. "'Where are they all, Maggie?' I cried. Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom third from London." which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' you are threatened by a very real and imminent danger. How do you dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same "One tallow stain, or even two, might come by chance; but when I "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that said he with an oath. 'Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity "And how did you verify them?" extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as "I had gone up to town about an investment, and I met him in shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" mystery." in the port of London." "When did she vanish, then?" in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself it means?" by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and stammered. to-night?' could gather together that I was able to avert another public protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. very morning of my second wedding." thoughtfully. "Of course there can be no doubt as to the nature shadow pass over his face as I spoke. that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might child?' my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and there." both rushed upon him and tore him away to the centre of the room. my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four status with the IRS. frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms "To an end?" "But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements observe. She had small round, hanging gold earrings, and a of note-paper. It read in this fashion: shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. "It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger "I saw her in conversation with her maid." finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was opened the door, and slipped through. All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real "To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the "I have solved it." "It came here." copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." "Come," cried the inspector, laughing; "it's a very pretty bearing upon the case."