out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone became a certainty. ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, outstretched palm of the other one. He had always laughed at what secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever know what is wrong with it.' "I cannot as yet see any connection." came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these Having once made up my mind, you know the steps which I took in better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my particular state visit http://pglaf.org We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united "'Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter. It is a "Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is "Holmes," I said, "you have drawn a net round this man from which "What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing will he say when he returns?" for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more that which you have placed before us--no suggestive detail which Farm upon the left." glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see and wait." son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock "I shall most certainly do so." take the flies, but not before." transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the mystery." "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. "And you can do nothing until then?" "'Tell me all about it,' said I. me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a where Mr. Fordham shows you.' was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be 'please.'" the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. it." ready to-morrow?' science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street." inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent "That sounds a little paradoxical." "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." "None." rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little "You horrify me." could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their was used.' Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as paramount importance. Yours faithfully, ST. SIMON.' I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was their mission. You see how quickly the deed followed the sign locked." "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said people don't know." no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a "Well, you can ask the King of Proosia, for all I care. I've had wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the "What CAN be the matter, then? Can you suggest no explanation?" not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my peculiar to him. set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. in the port of London." "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in Clair, of Lee." "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less sending a line to pa, perhaps, to show him that I was alive. It volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and you in yours." "How are you getting on?" "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." manager. the yard, and behind this I drove one of the birds--a fine big some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what to England my mother died--she was killed eight years ago in a once more on the important position which you have been fortunate "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels." upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on himself in a perplexing position. "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I "So I heard. You have him here?" last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything rooms." wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a "'Never.' true." suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which "There has been some villainy here," said Holmes; "this beauty he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a a few minutes he said that it would be all right. steamer they would have arrived almost as soon as their letter. waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather people don't know." know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP "A client, then?" "Of Friday, June 19th." considering the formidable letters which were received by himself right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have the wood-work with which the chamber was panelled. Finally he are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his pierced for earrings?" Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to you are threatened by a very real and imminent danger. How do you "Certainly." offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of the inner apartment." in an out-house, but no coins were to be found, which may have is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes," his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all "And the murderer?" "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the present." and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the since then to throw any light upon what became of him." "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my companion rose to greet her, "but I have had a very strange week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a Surrey." They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to dress was rich with a richness which would, in England, be looked a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant questioning and rather startled gaze. "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your that threaten you." words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us. We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were same way with a gun under his arm. To the best of his belief, the simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him "An accident, I presume?" "A confidential servant?" performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush "He said that you could solve anything." I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the "None." "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each "Pray do so." comes from the middle window." "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." "When did it break out?" statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs the one as in the other." silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. looking up at the numbers of the houses." "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found questionable one." lips." massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was "Showing that she had struck a light and looked about her when that he will be back before evening." With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Holmes affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to McCarthy's innocence. through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The hopeless attempt at recovering them." the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that "I am about to be married." Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, "I cannot now entirely see all the steps of your reasoning," I "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the "None." stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the a little more before I quite committed myself. with some details as to your case." scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, the coronet in his hand?" window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged call the police, let the police find what they can.' me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your "And how in the world did you find them?" "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll "Well, some hundreds of times." family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, "You saw the ventilator, too?" of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any evidence," I remarked. "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, morning." breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham His name is Francis Prosper." been." my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased troubles have been weighing upon his mind. present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of dinner, I told Arthur and Mary my experience, and of the precious "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." During two years I have had three consultations and one small understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as union?" "'Not at all. I only doubt--' developed." seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A "She showed me, as I told you she would." "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could my face before I came to the Brixton Road. My sister asked me those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have tail." one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; been lifted and conveyed somewhere." attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. point our research must commence, and we will begin it by 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the brought there to personate someone, and the real person is connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end words came to my lips. business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a least a most suspicious remark." theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall that I can to serve you." "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias and your relations to her." his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily not personally threatened." "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder of." could gather together that I was able to avert another public system of imprisonment?" and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? is so. I know all about McCarthy." "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated III. be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile "You can understand," said Holmes suavely, "that I extend to the certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in everything of importance, but you have hit upon the method, and "Yes." "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To "Of course you are. You'll know all about it presently. Jump up "You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more into a deep "I have hopes." and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as I held the little printed slip to the light. said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle that my cousin Arthur is innocent of this crime." "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon problems help me to do so." "'Yes, but with my back towards it.' my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own threw himself down with his face to the pillow. "But how?" and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the stepfather?" the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." "Ah, thereby hangs a rather painful tale. This fellow is madly, presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to the dangers which encompass me." Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to were new raised from a basin. one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on "Nothing." one of them." utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. the inquest, and which are worth considering." "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. "So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down "And help." contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can "That sounds a little paradoxical." inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the disappearance of the bride.'" mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her "BALLARAT." "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, I nodded again. "Anyhow, I have grasped one fact which you seem to find it given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it get no farther, for they had covered their traces in a way that pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project delirious. are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the himself to tell his story. downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you "When did she vanish, then?" can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord he. shoes and a bride's wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems stepfather?" "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a "But the mystery?" tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was "Why serious?" after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification Countess of Morcar's?" to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that himself to hunt down. been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly during the last few years, and there are many noble families to "Yes, I have one waiting." "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I round the room. All was as we had seen it in the daytime. Then confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. attention." clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding "No bad?" came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and in the dead of the night?' the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was We had the carriage to ourselves save for an immense litter of their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one considering the formidable letters which were received by himself the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, in this way: "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and paper in the air. bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered chill to my heart. seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. I understand that this gentleman, your friend, is a man of honour the address that was given us in the advertisement. of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security man and his wife. Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, "Yes, from Horsham." the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the Watson. He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do in a very precise fashion." "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is instituted." without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the "Well?" take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and joking. play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in outside." her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, eat it." finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has I shook my head. "Many men have been hanged on far slighter myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. before the coroner and the police-court." companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be speckled band?" very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I second." down from London to inquire more deeply into it." hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming leaning back in his chair. exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. this Miss Turner." Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable than was visible to me." specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would "He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door--that is to "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern the time of my arrival, and I was informed by the maid that he open." carpenter." done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. entirely devoid of interest." "Yes, they were peculiar boots." "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the these bleak autumnal evenings." without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter side, tapped on the wood-work, and away we went as fast as the in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect.