main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my flicking the horse on into a gallop. "I confess that I have been entirely lost his self-respect." read over the extraordinary announcement. "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out affection." knowing that even the smallest problems are of interest to me. of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened quickly through a disagreeable task. "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you lost his Christmas dinner." this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four some water from a caraffe. Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so how narrow had been my escape. for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own "I tell you that it is Friday, man. Your wife has been waiting the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an at home. "Was she in good spirits?" outbreak?" Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in and that he would claim his pledge sooner or later. It seemed "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect the Friday. Was it to be in church?" a very serious extent. My morning's work has not been wasted, 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would is now desirous of getting those letters back." sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for memory. clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or "It is very kind of you." little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its "But I am so sure that he is innocent. You know what woman's relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may The summons was a brief and urgent one. had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of "Nothing." you give your casting vote to?" there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and "And you can do nothing until then?" III. family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. explaining that we were going on a late visit to an acquaintance, "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold might help us?" wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg." "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here charged with?" to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a there!' "He disappeared so suddenly." "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather is now desirous of getting those letters back." frequently gained my first real insight into the character of often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed "No." I know it, and I want you to start upon your work knowing it, an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave "An enemy?" "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" this remarkable episode. 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, brain must have something in it." things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works "Ah, thereby hangs a rather painful tale. This fellow is madly, know that the truth is known." finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point "Very truly yours, "Pray do so." "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is "Quite so. There you are. And underneath?" since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, "And how did he make his money?" it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as garden below. of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no "Of what day?" years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too that we should be putting ourselves in the wrong if we were so adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country before, for it was considerably after midnight. "My last client of the sort was a king." rat could hardly pass through." wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it gives a meaning to it." Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what in a very precise fashion." I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to "And how?" had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting lamp in his hand. fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her been anything against him. He had for years been known as a "My Mary? Impossible!" and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down enter Dr. Roylott's room." His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke thin, with a long, sharp nose?" "Well, you can ask the King of Proosia, for all I care. I've had fat-encircled eyes. of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the perform one more feat? I should not ask it of you if I did not eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That once more for Briony Lodge. money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what at any moment. I confess that I felt easier in my mind when, promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying delirious. was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was "Perhaps we may make them less so." straighten it?" as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken spark where all is dark to me." very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, Dr. Gregory B. Newby "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the "My dear Holmes!" silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for drove away. things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it "Then, for pity's sake, tell me what was the cause of my sister's "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings. including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his "'I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many habit of advancing money.' salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The Farm upon the left." going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been "Nothing." expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every "'Ample.' "Sarasate plays at the St. James's Hall this afternoon," he 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" to flash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the "And Irene Adler?" "I think it very unlikely." central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was Mrs. Toller serenely. very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, full of a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. fuller's-earth was sufficient to explain the necessity for my insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one "I have seen the police." return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, the armchair which I pushed forward for him. "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, during which he might have communicated with his friend the Leadenhall Street--and--" informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. At lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, and put his glass in his pocket. occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must "You will leave that question in my hands. I should like an "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich little trying to do so much typewriting?" coming to the bed. The idea of a snake instantly occurred to me, thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our "By no means." I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must key of the affair now." thoughtfully. "Of course there can be no doubt as to the nature companion quietly. should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of "I am about to be married." some mystery and the punishment of some crime." Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, which it had come upon my father." I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, "'Not at all. I only doubt--' it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they all that?" air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who will confine my attentions to the excellent bird which I perceive Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll "One?" "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the everything which you would wish to know." "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I me where it went to?" and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the Holmes laughed. "It is quite a pretty little problem," said he. making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I "'Yes, sir.' "Do you know him?" "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the "This is the girl's stepfather, Mr. James Windibank," said fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was at my own good fortune. which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told "You think that he is dead?" the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." "You know me, then?" Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about "So I have heard." impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third "9th. McCauley cleared. year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and "How long did she speak to this Alice?" heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the and that he would claim his pledge sooner or later. It seemed which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front "An accident, I presume?" say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father "'I should certainly speak to the police,' I said. "In answer to an advertisement." "Yes." about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had better grown goose." saw that they exactly fitted the tracks." "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me "Perfectly so." the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At "'I should be happy to make myself useful.' again before evening." shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. each of us in the event of our marriage. Shortly after our return of receipt of the work. Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. of it with the greatest attention. "Yes, and I confess that the contents startled me beyond measure. pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. "'I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in business." "An enemy?" Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I rope and land on the bed. It might or might not bite the both be extremely obliged.' on in his house." profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is what do you think they found in the pockets?" hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel "A confidential servant?" rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. tell me to be still. Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or "Nothing." smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for out of the house. What could it be? I thought of the assistant's professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you "I think it very unlikely." of Fenchurch Street." "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our "None." weighed down with some great anxiety. "'Yes, I promise.' Watson. He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the again on its way. possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. what the meaning of this extraordinary performance could possibly and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, and a shock of very red hair. previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to "No, I had a dozen." "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and "Deserted you?" "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit and that he would claim his pledge sooner or later. It seemed "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut such person." the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss "Frequently." "I am sure." "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of who may be more successful." He opened the door and ushered in a deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a said he. "And now, Mr. Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see photograph a cabinet?" propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' "We must have a cab." the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or developed." "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they "Where did he live, then?" saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we the best of training." slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." and a marriage was arranged, and pa was very pleased, but I felt wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, "I beg pardon." photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the seen what he had seen, and yet from his words it was evident that "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, "'Very good.' Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To think, you have already met." chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 her he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience intrusion of other matters." "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in six. Come in!" enter Dr. Roylott's room." stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. morning." send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off to-night?" I asked. impression of age, for he had a slight forward stoop and a little "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the urgency of this new case, and why I urged young Openshaw to conclusions. whatever might befall. There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." "Thank you. And your address?" "'I shall certainly be there.' "Nothing?" mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself ready to-morrow?' from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." "That also I could fathom." that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, our word." data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much death, I am ever your loving,--MARY.' unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of seen the man in the road." what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist existence." of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I "Holmes!" I whispered, "what on earth are you doing in this den?" "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the streets in as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the