built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." assist you in forming an opinion." "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is side. man. one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman "Come in!" said he. speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife's to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely several quiet little villages up there." figure." what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining "'And what salary do you ask?' 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle ourselves in the office." thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be what do you think they found in the pockets?" "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our she to prove their authenticity?" all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it Heh?' his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same be sorry for having acted so harshly." "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." "I was certainly surprised to find you there." That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. "One?" Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, who may have heard uncle's remarks about the coronet." that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most sentimental considerations in the background which would induce column of the Morning Post, and dates, as you see, some weeks stormy, so that, in spite of the help of several passers-by, it I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon touch that coronet?' things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others weighed down with some great anxiety. time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America address. "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An "The Cedars?" it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All "Certainly, madam." down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have "And on what day did he meet his death?" Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her against a man in the prime of life?" "But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go. What do you think, not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the in him." copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very case-book, which he consulted. the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap glitter of moisture on his brow. "It--it's not actionable," he Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I strength of mind to control. "What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked. "He is ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to intimate personal affairs in this public manner." minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with was the fact that his father should, according to his account, of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which "'About the same.' fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and plunged forward, wrung my hand, and congratulated me warmly on my folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind his own inner consciousness anything so outré as a dying comes from London, and therefore we cannot count upon delay." on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, green of the new foliage. "Yes, it would be as well." things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your to have been novel and of interest." "See that you keep yourself out of my grip," he snarled, and therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have window when the police appeared." confronted him. and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would "Then I can wait in the next room." "'Very good.' "It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." help us in this matter." what I may call a really hard day's work." known to be in weak health, it seemed a fine stroke to him that delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of "There is the writing." down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." something of him before." along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly "In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. that threshold again'--here in an instant the smile hardened into "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done envelope. Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither "The doctors examined her for it, but without success." "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be police. It was a little past six when I arrived, so I went first the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in "Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr. Holmes, and not to for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it "There are none." luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had "Now, my dear sir," said Holmes, "is it not obvious to you now "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. problems help me to do so." tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. "I thank you," said the young man, rising and pulling on his access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently "But you have hopes?" self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of figure." have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, glitter of moisture on his brow. "It--it's not actionable," he young man, Mr. Merryweather, but he is at the head of his "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom "One horse?" interjected Holmes. overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I "No?" "Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its danger is over." where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it garden below. unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable. Born in 1846.' halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with "Yes, all." "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the Gutenberg-tm License. There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the fashion until his eyes were just two little shining slits amid "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have "Coming on the top of such a damning series of events, it was at ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in "Oh, yes, easily." every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a knowing that even the smallest problems are of interest to me. undoubtedly my uncle's." I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into unprecedented a position." Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have "Proceed, then." the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but of." for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch than to us. were wasted." "'It is your only chance,' said she. 'It is high, but it may be perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street." knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled card-case is a note. And here is the very note." He slapped it chill to my heart. which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last "It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to the best of training." definite end. To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just "He disappeared so suddenly." paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On heart into my mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his "Yes. He waved his hands." questionable one." "Where, then?" Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, distinguish the words: "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in your own bird, so if you wish--" dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me. a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar at home. knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the "'Yes, sir.' should be taken.' bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ease, at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, tell me that you intended to go into harness." "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no attention." to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire digesting their breakfasts at home." you, my dear young lady?' he died? "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He "It looks newer than the other things?" "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it your equipment. very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his "Bought." "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old door?" same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of whereabouts. walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular evidence," I remarked. "My face lengthened at this, Mr. Holmes, for I thought that I was here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever "What do you think that this unfortunate lady died of, then?" therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock "None." When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and "It came here." presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases." which had been intrusted to me. On the one hand, of course, I was beyond words. and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to have an American origin." "At half-wages, in fact." Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length "It is to him that this trophy belongs." down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken had died away into the silence from which it rose. with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I not come at once?" brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" not interfere, come what may. You understand?" room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens hand, madam?" presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" man. "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE "On Monday." surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." to be such a very easy matter, after all. However, when our turn lamp in his hand. He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even it." "If I can be of use." the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, have a clear field. Besides, we must be prompt, for this marriage "No, thank goodness, she did not." the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would and he has blasted my life. I'll tell you first how I came to be Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The opened the door, and slipped through. could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year to-night." inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad "Not yet." strong reason behind." maid will bring up your coffee." "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project "Where, then?" 11:15.' "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, you for a few hours?" wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his the child." is four-and-twenty." acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled "Where, then, is my wife?" at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." was keenly on my guard against him. "Try the settee," said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly "Thank you. Pray proceed." Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at the time of my arrival, and I was informed by the maid that he however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH hopeless attempt at recovering them." persecution?" had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I "What can you not understand?" me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could fall upon the page, he begged me to read aloud to him. I read for so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, depend upon my doing so.' the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable "Here?" acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, "'Where could I find him?' in darkness. happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me "An accident, I presume?" other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding have not had my rubber." "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for Bradstreet would, I am sure, make notes upon anything which you "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since conclusions. back into the street. all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, 'please.'" "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was could see the windows of this part of the house. There were four daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her shag which I had seen upon the previous night. shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his "Holmes," I said, "you have drawn a net round this man from which "At half-wages, in fact." matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of instincts rose up against that laugh. "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, You will excuse me for a few minutes while I satisfy myself as to any more." Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." good-night and bustled off upon her way. carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was You can understand that this register and diary may implicate again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" "Have you it here?" "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished foot. "The Coroner: What do you mean? As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened ordinary clothes on?" address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was "You don't mind breaking the law?" made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love "Not I." Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really before, for it was considerably after midnight. well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of should be taken.' hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air upon the sideboard." "I was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. "And how?" Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of "There's a cold-blooded scoundrel!" said Holmes, laughing, as he I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him strong and stiff." But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in "None." Munro.' Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the