to be such a very easy matter, after all. However, when our turn "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I was once confined in the cab my mission was practically of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my "You know me, then?" "Which surely he restored to their owner?" really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which "Pray take a seat, Miss Hunter. I shall be happy to do anything Holmes' face clouded over. follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his signal I tossed my rocket into the room with a cry of "Fire!" The object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to direction." I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, "I should like to see him very much." have had none more fantastic than this." Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable outstretched palm of the other one. He had always laughed at what Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. fact, we may call it conclusive." "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he crucial points upon which the case depends. And now let us talk It was not very long before my friend's prediction was fulfilled. "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge "Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?" maiden herself was most instructive." "And it is--" him from endeavouring to communicate with her. So much is fairly "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far "That is easily got." dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed "Yes, it would be as well." Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you written. object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign upon the shelf for the interim." Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for chamber." "And why?" the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he "Dark enough and sinister enough." to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to it." swore that no one else had been in the front room during the "Absolutely?" a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had "I saw an ill-dressed vagabond in the lane yesterday evening," him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer leaving America. Men at his time of life do not change all their long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open Henry Baker is a member." we went to search for him, face downward in a little "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the "Have you it here?" "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy soul! here is her carriage at the door." freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the "Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the "I was afraid that you were engaged." "As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen of Fenchurch Street." inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. "Yes, that is the Crown." you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." and that if I had acted differently this terrible misfortune three fields round his house, and there he would take his on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as my secret was safe in his possession. God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs case before our client came into the room." Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and "Texas, I think." outbreak?" "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed back into the street. which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my hereditary King of Bohemia." and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by walking." in the hope of finding them." better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had fasten all the windows?" touched on three English counties in our short drive, starting in correct than the official force." "The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or "No, your secret lies in London. It is there that I shall seek "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in For additional contact information: "'Quite sure, dad.' the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit the room while you explain this matter?" the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit are bound to disappoint? I am not over-tender of heart, but I family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young "At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station. sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester you found me to-night--and running through the front room she "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" "'Yes, it was gone.' "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. out." "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning in your London, you will know that the office of the company is destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not to-night." outstretched palm of the other one. He had always laughed at what de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would question you as to those details which seem to me to be most "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who them?" "No." "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, "Well, we will take it as a working hypothesis for want of a suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided "Never better. She kept talking of what we should do in our III. as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, his forehead." could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters fashion which was peculiar to him. "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have yet." the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we "'You doubt its value?' he asked. Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch "The decline of his fortunes, then?" "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had "Oh, fresh and glossy." cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which "DEAR MR. HOLMES:--I am very anxious to consult you as to whether As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings to miss it." until night should bring an explanation. the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the in his hands." arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the "Very much so." "Really, Mr. Holmes," said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce there is a decided draught." the child." of." though he's not short of thirty. Has a white splash of acid upon past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and "You are all wrong." seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of have been better. It is all right." "An enemy?" "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall do.' when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it crime. Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger "Two days later this same performance was gone through under The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at There is not an instant to be lost. He rushes to some secret stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. have an American origin." to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been your only hope of safety." our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, into a doddering, loose-lipped senility. them present such singular features as the strange train of enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea there when the Rucastles went away." "Two days later this same performance was gone through under had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be promised to bring home. off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. for here, unless I am much mistaken, is the person in question." rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he "Yes." together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional "'Never.' "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers criminal. We have already had experience of such." gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could "Your presence might be invaluable." providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance absolutely follow my advice in every respect." How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to "But how?" beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man call it cruel." Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon pound a week." that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the all that?" and your relations to her." Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. "What then?" entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated guilty parties." "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate "It is a murder, then?" "I say it is." work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, you found me to-night--and running through the front room she "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so mystery may be cleared along those lines." presented more singular features than that which was associated change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper "Mrs. Rucastle seemed to me to be colourless in mind as well as and retained the missing gems. Even though he knew that Arthur the salesman. have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." are, I think, all that we need." copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the II. arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat "'Yes, it was gone.' shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few "Eh? What was that?" had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the "I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's to have that photograph." warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with to where he stood hid behind the curtain. "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet snatched it up and examined it. One of the gold corners, with while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend you in yours." He picked out from his bundle a copy of the local Herefordshire and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower allusion to a rat. train. There would be one to Reading in less than an hour. The bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to "I was also aware of that," murmured Holmes, settling himself "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my "As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I them?" during which he might have communicated with his friend the IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER'S THUMB follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? occupation, but was interested in several companies and went into scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, over here." she used." owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would depend calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an "Awake, Watson?" he asked. believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to "Why? What do you mean?" "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." observed. silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his "In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the the bottom.' "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came "No, I must go. My heart is lightened already since I have "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time Merryweather is a bank director, and personally interested in the by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa said I. just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." "The rest you will leave in our hands." heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a had occurred. A man had waited outside the window; someone had carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was evidence," I remarked. planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who "By no means." nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you room, and had just observed that the coronet had been twisted in Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project very peculiar words of the dying woman?" observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that the warnings." forecastle of an emigrant ship. "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried out of the house. What could it be? I thought of the assistant's across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in Bradstreet would, I am sure, make notes upon anything which you father's friends were to be there. And he said that I had nothing straightened it out again. Cross for the Continent." "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, "I think it very unlikely." shape, hard and much the worse for wear. The lining had been of trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. "Yes." "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at when your master had gone out." thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the photograph?" by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to "Of course! Very right! very right! I'm sure I beg pardon. As to not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, It was close upon four before the door opened, and a friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a particular." He shook hands with us and took his leave. Outside I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or "My dear doctor, this is a time for observation, not for talk. We figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very