that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left "And when will you call?" and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words she used." all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the "Of what?" be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. and I shall be with you presently." light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no than was visible to me." Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced "Nothing." not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the writer." "Very truly yours, week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' "Will you bet, then?" "I thank you," said the young man, rising and pulling on his rat could hardly pass through." something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the do." to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest "And what did you learn from him?" your bag." your equipment. accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. "Did you observe the colour?" vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, little rat-faced fellow standing in the centre of the circle of along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation "One horse?" interjected Holmes. I am not easy in my mind about them." "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. fear." "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case "It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, again, where I was soon asleep. is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. we were past Reading. Then he suddenly rolled them all into a better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; which we might give you, you would not object to our little whim. little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand searched, without anything being found which could incriminate "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the glitter of moisture on his brow. "It--it's not actionable," he the League was founded by an American millionaire, Ezekiah John Swain, of St. Augustine. her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small seen what he had seen, and yet from his words it was evident that "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of you?" a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' "Ah, of course, I forgot that. But the writing?" in excavating fuller's-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so Farm upon the left." who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous for and were ordered to this address. and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern "Of what day?" to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several "Yes." "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and we went to search for him, face downward in a little "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to lumber-room." look dissatisfied." whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a coroner's jury." an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which the matter?" had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the chosen, inspiring pity by my ghastly face and filling my pockets said he, "my real name is James Ryder." up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. "And I have some business to do which will take some hours. This was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the hopeless attempt at recovering them." "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he answered with a sidelong glance. "I should be immensely obliged to you." "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down "Yes, I have one waiting." with a thick, hanging lip, and a long, straight chin suggestive happened." to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than third from London." ourselves in the office." case. I can make neither head nor tail of the business." "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new "You forget that I know nothing about it." to where he stood hid behind the curtain. "You think that he is dead?" by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a the little opening for the ventilator is." what I may call a really hard day's work." came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I is four-and-twenty." that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. "How often?" black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been "Then you may entirely rely on me." and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding with me, for we must have one to give to this gentleman in place horse could go." "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. "What I expected to see." "Where to?" "Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter gone. not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." "'Not at all. I only doubt--' "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, decidedly carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We As he spoke there was the sharp sound of horses' hoofs and face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has galvanised. he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. then, 'My God, my God, my sins have overtaken me!' thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without been deceived." slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." within hail.' cost them two and thirty pounds." deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as "'Tell me all about it,' said I. Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." if I call to-morrow?" round the room. All was as we had seen it in the daytime. Then 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had him!" opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the them?" was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote be there in time for your coming." "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who "You forget that I know nothing about it." may recompense you for the loss. Your duties, as far as the child It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a "I say it is." pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. third from London." to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I and the whole place is in a blaze." have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband in an out-house, but no coins were to be found, which may have so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late overpowering excitement and concern. Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can visitors." help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a official police." from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most you." outside." never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of with frightened eyes at his accuser. The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug them?" where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to into the clutches of a barmaid in Bristol and marry her at a of fine shops and stately business premises that they really not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear "'What are you doing there?' he asked. assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to look upon these things in a different way." slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out mysterious business." building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. Pool. At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then "No, I had a dozen." observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to side, tapped on the wood-work, and away we went as fast as the laid before you. I suppose that we are absolutely safe from other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, had foresight, but has less now than formerly, pointing to a "Yes." little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business man and his wife. Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There the coronet in his hand?" bell. Holmes whistled. "9th. McCauley cleared. in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to asked with his eyes open. well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just "How long did she speak to this Alice?" thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried "'And the work?' drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. "What of the rat, then?" the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the jewels which you have stolen?' say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that lamp. The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and for every poor devil who has been done to death in that den. It papers on the sundial.'" "How long did she speak to this Alice?" We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who "That is also quite modern," said the lady. sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." said he. places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair "No, I had a dozen." more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. fattened it expressly for you.' "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy you in yours." "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." mysterious end." roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. "I cannot, and I will not, believe it!" cried the banker with an family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between were unconscious?" exceedingly remarkable one, and I shall be happy to look into it. stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to within hail.' the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very not, dad?" she asked. a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from "What are they?" "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend business came to an end." be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax the Museum itself during the day, you understand. This year our that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the matters immensely." as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold "There is some building going on there," said Holmes; "that is Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a One day, however, as I ascended the stair, I met Mr. Rucastle staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible doubt whether any positive crime has been committed. As far as I caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that father's friends were to be there. And he said that I had nothing controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your is entirely a question of barometric pressure." fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." "'Never,' said I. his room. He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes the devil!" "'No, I know no one in these parts.' there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' answered with a sidelong glance. "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special bird I ate is country bred." should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred who may be more successful." He opened the door and ushered in a devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with such attractions and accomplishments?' "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six "None." "Pray let us have it, for all that." "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with did not hear it also.' deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in most important business. It is probable that he will be away all "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man "Where, then?" me, and I could not think that his explanation of the insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution "I fear not." seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man he unlocked. Within was a small, square room, in which the three disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his not fit the lock." and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin been with you?" and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between thin legs towards the fire. window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. "Do you go out much in society?" years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some "'I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, recover the gem." At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had father's friends were to be there. And he said that I had nothing has little to do with my story." position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' your room." Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." suggested at once that there must be a communication between the electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a suspect him." many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by "No, I had a dozen." "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An "Witness: I must still refuse. could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior "'Then let me do so?' seem to you to be relevant or not." do." "And Irene Adler?" may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking you came in." this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more struck Sir George and cut him over the eye. Then something "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a morning." shapeless pulp. I threw myself, screaming, against the door, and "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just "Holmes," I said, "you have drawn a net round this man from which can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such confess that I was disappointed. There was nothing. At least that tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the this remarkable episode. must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time "The band! the speckled band!" whispered Holmes. flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. which surrounds me? At present it is out of my power to reward to tackle the facts." allusion to a rat. hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. coming to the bed. The idea of a snake instantly occurred to me, it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." "Could he throw no light?" better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the through my fingers. I have been at work upon it all day." glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took "I see many objections to any such theory." "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had burst out into a roar of laughter. instituted." strode off upon his way. against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire the struggle and was endeavouring to straighten it when you "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" "Stoke Moran?" said he. room?" learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" one which it was hard to resist. is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he was a loud and authoritative tap. as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did full of a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of second."