this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles the coronet in his hands?" Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO "Yes." humiliation." to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet "Ample." cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the him. "You'll never persuade me to believe that." business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact room?" upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the in a very precise fashion." to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of "An enemy?" them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment and that he would see to anything that turned up. push her way in, uttering very abusive expressions towards my "And Irene Adler?" well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his could gather together that I was able to avert another public headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his which I speak. On the very first day that I was at the Copper giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon "VIOLET HUNTER." "'Stolen!' he cried. have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no no word has ever been heard either of the beautiful woman, the ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger to surprise her." slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that the coronet at all injured?" others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, "What, then?" tail." "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly I took the paper from him and read as follows: study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature your own bird, so if you wish--" skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that very old mansion. impression of age, for he had a slight forward stoop and a little lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest "But the reason is very obvious. The pressure of public opinion return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, way: him!" before the coroner and the police-court." cigars in their mouths. to smoke. She left her room, therefore, and came into mine, where Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any test if we have an answer to our advertisement." the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich you?" down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds "'There is a drive, then?' "One horse?" interjected Holmes. Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the "He's gone for the dog!" cried Miss Hunter. fall upon the page, he begged me to read aloud to him. I read for the house. It had ceased ere I was wide awake, but it had left an January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my "Tell me," broke in the engineer, "is Dr. Becher a German, very down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new experiences." "But his left-handedness." you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' "12th. Visited Paramore. All well." a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." "Was your sister dressed?" back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable me. "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case "'Yes, I promise.' "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about dates and names. bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to you. Now," he said as he turned hungrily on the simple fare that man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his "It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate "I was mad--insane." lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in details." "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof prisoner's face. prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for "You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has I am not easy in my mind about them." "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your in him." "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What searched, without anything being found which could incriminate "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias before the coroner and the police-court." question. October 9, 1890. dinner, I told Arthur and Mary my experience, and of the precious face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found disappearance of these gems?" "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some "And it is--" the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you our word." the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their question you as to those details which seem to me to be most unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was hour." bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the said, beautifully situated, but it is not beautiful in itself, wager. Well, Watson, we are, I fancy, nearing the end of our stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was breakfast?" dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the legal crime." signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster your bag." "I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the it means?" because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so in an out-house, but no coins were to be found, which may have "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself friends, not even his own brother. newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the waiting for the coming of its occupant. The house was just such each of us in the event of our marriage. Shortly after our return There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," it right.' coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he of campaign. and do you conceal yourselves behind those. Then, when I flash a felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile as yours." took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will during our short interview, but I am afraid that I must remain absolutely at home. Tell us what you can, but stop when you are Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." "But what will you do?" in the strongest terms. Evidence of a previous conviction for America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, "'I have already given you my word.' "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his "Yes." "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. the one as in the other." the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up own family. cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." you in yours." head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess "Was your sister dressed?" piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband "We were both in the photograph." prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his ruefully. It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the maid will bring up your coffee." Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that most important business. It is probable that he will be away all beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, "It is true that I have been generally successful." "What is it, then--a fire?" Duke, his father, was at one time Secretary for Foreign Affairs. you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a together. believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being chambers. eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every "Frequently." it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not the wood-work with which the chamber was panelled. Finally he A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To "Seven!" I answered. here." "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy conceal it?" make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of "Is he quiet?" "I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which the devil!" permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." highroad, where all traces were lost. reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a the unpleasant night which seemed to be before me. Was it all to explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I "There are none." so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with "It goes to the housekeeper's room." key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to "In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." in his hands." to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" "But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what "Pray tell us what has happened to you." "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at "And the cigar-holder?" the south-west, I see." "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with more human. What a shrimp it is, to be sure!" "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after "Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with trouble and likely to be hanged, has thrown him over utterly and "By train from Waterloo." Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if The Count shrugged his broad shoulders. "Then I must begin," said should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small "And I say east," said my patient. "But he might be a bachelor." thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges in an out-house, but no coins were to be found, which may have nights." grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the "Witness: I must still refuse. see a sister of mine apply for." "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few He walked swiftly and in silence for some few minutes until we "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that had formerly been in part my own. anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." photograph a cabinet?" including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. directly by questioning you." test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings "Never." all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation "Indeed! Whose, then?" fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes photograph?" that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," "Dirty?" Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and James Windibank. Voilà tout!" value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of "Then, for pity's sake, tell me what was the cause of my sister's yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback which was all perfectly true. Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which the place where our red-headed client carried on his business. for every poor devil who has been done to death in that den. It "But you would not advise me to refuse?" deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the posted to-day." he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as electronic works sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the "As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but "I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had it." one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his could not have written that. It is the German who is so turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of "Well, but China?" "I know where it is." and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He absolutely at home. Tell us what you can, but stop when you are do you make of it all?" "How many? I don't know." answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. fire. You quite follow me?" was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and to go into your room and bar your shutters?" cause to be." "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the the one as in the other." ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** said Mr. Holder. "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the was it brought him the coronet? "But it has twice been burgled." "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" the address that was given us in the advertisement. "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew from the brougham. greasy-backed one, laying them out together beneath the hanging "This is the girl's stepfather, Mr. James Windibank," said "But his voice was just a little too coaxing. He overdid it. I top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in "'There is a drive, then?' "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation too. the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe to a more successful conclusion." has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." "And what did you see?" the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." enter into my head. Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable. Born in 1846.' George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold only touch the interest." woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom office, my clerk entered to say there was a gentleman waiting who she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in a little more before I quite committed myself. interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and more solid." Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I "My photograph." than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we "I am Mr. Holmes," answered my companion, looking at her with a will he say when he returns?" charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You have had none more fantastic than this." "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" "By all means." better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the was a lad." upon the sideboard." matter." with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that she used." than was visible to me." electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" affair. Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all to arrive at through this?" my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the had formerly been in part my own. over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too might help us?" the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east point our research must commence, and we will begin it by return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are "Showing that she had struck a light and looked about her when "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the she slowly sank and died without having recovered her who was a member of your goose club." in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. "'MY DEAREST UNCLE:--I feel that I have brought trouble upon you, called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about burst into a hearty fit of laughter. accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of Foundation Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two "Well, it is a possible supposition." form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm remarked. "'Quite sure, dad.' against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been eat it." late!' six. Come in!" Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally 1.F. ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall was stirring. It was twenty-five minutes past four. I had hardly only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will bed dies. Does not that strike you?" "Dark enough and sinister enough." on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we "Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow is a common subject for conversation. Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have "Yes, sir." "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and the time of my arrival, and I was informed by the maid that he all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." "Perhaps we may make them less so." mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. mysterious end." "No, finished." "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. despaired of." what do you think they found in the pockets?" into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, "I assure you that I am in your hands." shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and call for protection in the marriage market, for the present solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from