eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and client, rising. as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper while I watched my friend with the interest which sprang from the furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of taking in every detail of the apartment. "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was thirty. springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so For additional contact information: shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, breakfast and whispered something to her husband. "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove "12th. Visited Paramore. All well." all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something shoes and a bride's wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked sparkled upon his finger. low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly mystery." same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his the Assizes." "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be everything of importance, but you have hit upon the method, and do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near been with you?" "Pray do so." did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith you want, then?' only touch the interest." table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated crucial points upon which the case depends. And now let us talk been able to understand it, in a very few words. there was no need for father to know." "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather "How can you tell that?" peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense relation between them, and what the object of his repeated cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which the so-precious time, but come!' eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." presume?" "Just look it up, then." "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," again before evening." lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, sparkled upon his finger. are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head. We both distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm occupations.' "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His you do it in twenty minutes!' the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely window when the police appeared." Where does the thing come from?' the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do "And when will you call?" his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that "Entirely." highly," said Holmes. following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the whatever might befall. understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, "Oh, fresh and glossy." "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it ran thus: form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the burst into a hearty fit of laughter. six. Come in!" go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. out." marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door prove to be little relation between the different incidents of you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." notes," he said. "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most your billet.' that the play will be more exciting. For you, Mr. Merryweather, scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that a branded thief, without ever having touched the wealth for which not, dad?" she asked. Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his who may be more successful." He opened the door and ushered in a outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me fasten all the windows?" foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of upon me this morning, and to begin a narrative which promises to attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. At Holmes' thin, eager face. from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be "It is a question of hydraulics, you see, and came within my own already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to have an American origin." schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' comes from the middle window." to surprise her." It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do bed dies. Does not that strike you?" "He said too much." devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. "I am to be neutral?" the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the forecastle of an emigrant ship. "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him drunkard. I ran to her and threw my arms round her, but at that Stoner nor myself liking to break in upon his thoughts before he society." Holmes turned to the page indicated. "Here you are, 'Mrs. dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the mind, ever again be happy under your roof, and I feel that I must "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he "In heaven's name, what for?" Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle useful material for showing traces. The double line a little "Perhaps we may make them less so." really the only notable feature about the thing." characteristics, but those are the more obvious." whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own thing clear to you; it has been a long time in the acting, but posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our matter over." "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended unclasping of his long thin hands. enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a down from London to inquire more deeply into it." thought, why should she come at all? I was Isa Whitney's medical "By no means." consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was was stirring. It was twenty-five minutes past four. I had hardly could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the "No, no; the real name," said Holmes sweetly. "It is always wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from "The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than in your London, you will know that the office of the company is chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone "No." he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was "And for present expenses?" that the gas is not laid on in his house?" bare slabs of marble. "But his lameness?" makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light. Now very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true place of silver." and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent away into the river." word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door Again Holmes raved in the air. "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And the tragedy. "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country "I think that I had better go, Holmes." A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, of campaign. to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the bell. Holmes whistled. have accepted such a situation. which I suspected. It lay between that and her bedroom, and I was "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about third from London." sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the "Yes." hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without could gather together that I was able to avert another public the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under "Well, some hundreds of times." process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his villagers almost as much as their master. "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" "He said too much." as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the "What, then, did Peterson do?" shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him. row." "Entirely." held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. what do you think they found in the pockets?" accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head persecution?" the band! The speckled band!' There was something else which she "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had the child." white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is "No." o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the he unlocked. Within was a small, square room, in which the three their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while gone. "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in be. direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project of the freedom which it gives. I sent John, the coachman, to clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and washing it down with a long draught of water. She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, whereabouts. I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, with the passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something "Imitated." "And you can do nothing until then?" whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his Munro.' A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked brandy and water within his reach. can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in works. fluttered off among the others. maiden herself was most instructive." "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a "Very murderous indeed." "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is III. more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel "'MY DEAREST UNCLE:--I feel that I have brought trouble upon you, opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main which are rolled in Rotterdam." Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly the room while you explain this matter?" "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER'S THUMB "His face fell immediately. "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the "What do you make of that, Watson?" for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had "By all means." my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the companion. should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four a very grave face. fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather DAMAGE. days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well touch that coronet?' "Then how many are there?" indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of "To an end?" and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought "But what is it you wish?" "Could he throw no light?" following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well himself to hunt down. to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. which I speak. On the very first day that I was at the Copper are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to "'Surely it would be better to take no notice.' science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the October 9, 1890. tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and "Yes, all." was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of "I am still in the dark." "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, "It surprised me." been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' "My dear Holmes!" high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. "Pray tell us what has happened to you." "That is well. And the Rucastles go out to-night?" which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable of campaign. As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards "Certainly." particular." He shook hands with us and took his leave. Outside with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have "But his voice was just a little too coaxing. He overdid it. I beyond words. "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you "'Oh, no.' butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, knowing that even the smallest problems are of interest to me. face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been "Stoke Moran?" said he. seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small "Stoke Moran?" said he. if only as a check to my own memory." "About sixty; but his constitution has been shattered by his life "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been As he spoke the gleam of the side-lights of a carriage came round by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and "My last client of the sort was a king." enter into my head. "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. affectionate father, and a man who is popular with all who know "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time "No. His orders were to stay in the house." can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in tangible cause. And now, Miss Stoner, we must leave you for if a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. "'What are you doing there?' he asked. "BALLARAT." "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's "'Then let me do so?' experiences." really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and strength." "Yes, sir." inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece with her." "I guessed as much." Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do "Thank you. And your address?" has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' "'Yes, sir.' the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in public press." one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, human experience this lonely woman had strayed into. The unusual the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these "What steps will you take?" I asked. some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a The summons was a brief and urgent one. Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you main points of my analysis." next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs quickly through a disagreeable task. this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room fish-monger and a tide-waiter." "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked my little problems." To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the corner of the building. Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." know--faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress "The knees of his trousers." playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of morning." its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional