previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his "What steps will you take?" I asked. "The doctors examined her for it, but without success." is now desirous of getting those letters back." "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor hands. of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in "Coming on the top of such a damning series of events, it was at desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle "And sit in the dark?" to some other building. and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a "His face fell immediately. providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" character. with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double "Yes, all." doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she I. "Why, it's a dummy," said he. read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in at my remark. "He slept on the premises." in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. "I was mad--insane." murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his character. more important and less innocent aspect. Here is the stone; the I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch "And help." been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting you found me to-night--and running through the front room she through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention "But I am all in the dark." "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, "'Never mind. I'll have the other, and I'll take it now,' said I. ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an "I think it very unlikely." "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously read it out to me." Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon "And I say east," said my patient. He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which "I will not look." common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon "Not particularly." them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a outside. had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with he saw clearly not only what had happened but what was about to King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are "Yes, certainly." where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his little adventures." "'Never mind. I'll have the other, and I'll take it now,' said I. papers." the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away "By no means." asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the brought there to personate someone, and the real person is which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you Our visitor glanced with some apparent surprise at the languid, "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was "A greater distance to travel." He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to over her that the mere sight of him would induce her to change many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband These, we presume, indicated the nature of the papers which had "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has "That also I could fathom." so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a to Leatherhead. ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' "An accident, I presume?" importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship. I think family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a should be so warm over such a trifle." since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which "Now, then, what's the last entry?" seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my have not had my rubber." before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" "Now, then, what's the last entry?" my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has "Ah, but I was recommended to you." waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set beg that you will break it off." vanished; "I will tell you the true solution of the matter. Lady excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, it were putty." which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for knowing that even the smallest problems are of interest to me. didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the "That is easily got." upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect "That is easily got." and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are kindly on the shoulder. October 9, 1890. boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand "A client, then?" "Good God! What a week she must have spent!" window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew footmen declared that he had seen a lady leave the house thus you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich already referred to. "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom strode off upon his way. questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, brain must have something in it." "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall I should send him away to his death--!" He sprang from his chair compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of "'You are mad, Elise!' he shouted, struggling to break away from reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in "Well, I have no connection with any other people who have been "I have devised seven separate explanations, each of which would "What CAN be the matter, then? Can you suggest no explanation?" Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." Leave Paddington by the 11:15." "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, at a side door. It was close upon four before the door opened, and a "Ample." of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and occupation, but was interested in several companies and went into "How did you deduce the select?" built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for "She showed me, as I told you she would." there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew "'Where are they all, Maggie?' I cried. think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was he, "of course you can hardly avoid publicity. On the other hand, tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having "'I shall certainly be there.' me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when "By train from Waterloo." when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace allusion to a rat. back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if one's self under obligations.' It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I his wife has ceased to love him." the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your "Certainly, madam." At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the "And I." looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases." "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your keep the flames under. conversation I have gathered that they have been married about thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously this order might lead to other ones. On the other hand, the face "'What would be the hours?' I asked. Lestrade of Scotland Yard." man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very writing, and yet I know it well." "But of what society?" The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water it right.' Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which "I am armed." tied." observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The straightened it out again. upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery. days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have main points of my analysis." upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same bird of prey. "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the brandy and water within his reach. interest. They are important, you understand, without being "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears "I cannot tell." "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a noise which awoke you from your sleep?" "Mrs. St. Clair had fainted at the sight of the blood upon the need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." joking. that the individual must be brought into frequent contact with few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too "I saw nothing remarkable save the bell-rope, and what purpose "It may not come to that," said Holmes. figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes. It was a He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket." He waved his word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly "No, I had a dozen." mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I "I saw nothing remarkable save the bell-rope, and what purpose coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had few hundred pounds.' neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian may recompense you for the loss. Your duties, as far as the child am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your sneer upon his pale face. "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been becomes even more simple." chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that remarked. "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against open." and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have "I would pay ten." deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. not within a twentieth part of the market price." "You heard nothing yourself last night?" lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue directors have had misgivings upon the subject." always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my "'Yes, thief!' I roared, shaking him by the shoulder. o'clock is it?" "See that you keep yourself out of my grip," he snarled, and firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that and files of the old papers, following the future career of every all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." could not have written that. It is the German who is so science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety people don't know." have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the back his son; but I had gained the cover of the wood, though I Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the good-night and bustled off upon her way. mysterious end." letters?" "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" Pope's Court. said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is case before our client came into the room." my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but who may be more successful." He opened the door and ushered in a the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. which had been intrusted to me. On the one hand, of course, I was "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. "I should be immensely obliged to you." through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that "It came here." "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and gone before you can get him to hospital." Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He introspective fashion. her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, off." and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us lumber-room." "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. "The murder was done with it." "But I am so sure that he is innocent. You know what woman's get the tickets." fait accompli?" "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and him and tried to hold him back. - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. is worth.' given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for ways of our fellow-men." "But it has twice been burgled." and pay our debts, if we do nothing more. foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are at once, for I have only half an hour." however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. "Certainly." had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the arrangements." colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my the house. It had ceased ere I was wide awake, but it had left an "It's nothing of the kind." subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I through my fingers. I have been at work upon it all day." were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, ready to-morrow?' also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon, glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is question," said Holmes, smiling. open." cigar and let me expound." perplexity from it to my illustrious client. to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of "Which are?" "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was their mission. You see how quickly the deed followed the sign the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the introspective fashion. "Then I shall certainly come." The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried security.' of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had "What office?" "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in to some other building. their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client business?" along the entire front of the house, with three long windows laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her Does that suggest anything?" cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention like gravel from a pit.' has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally official police." "What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was "Then, how do you know?" may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future there were so many in the whole country as were brought together the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" to arrive at through this?" even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of of Oxfordshire, and within seven miles of Reading. There is a of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself results." round with crates and massive boxes. and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. outside. "And why?" Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the "But how?" in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind his eyes. "I trust that I am not intruding. I fear that I have International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End shall not find me ungrateful." The Black Swan is an inn of repute in the High Street, at no "'Is 4 pounds a week.' had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded very peculiar words of the dying woman?" one of the states of the Union." "'You cannot say what it was?' depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from fluttered off among the others. another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a intrusion of other matters." 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty than was visible to me." whether it answered to the description of any of their unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with client, rising. the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight nice household for a young lady." At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I photograph?" "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." fatally injured? "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" "Nor running a chance of arrest?" I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was that he will be back before evening." India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the office, my clerk entered to say there was a gentleman waiting who "If I can be of use." well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I brought there to personate someone, and the real person is his violence of the morning before, and he dropped heavily into colonel looking down at me. posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's "You have done wisely," said my friend. "But have you told me voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, what do you think they found in the pockets?" whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, tell them apart.' more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in papers must be those that are destroyed.' protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in the yard, and behind this I drove one of the birds--a fine big that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable I think that I could be of assistance to you." unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more into a deep time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the