interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" "And that is--" 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a "I reached this one," said my friend, "by sitting upon five "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, "I will do it." "Perhaps I have." Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon lamp. Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his make me his representative both with the servants and with the family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but Merryweather is a bank director, and personally interested in the humiliation." get her out of the way." in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do "Then the page we have seen--" pressing in one house as in another. tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what "'Which dealer's?' again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. "You'll never persuade me to believe that." "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey 1.E.9. "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK Holmes." Holmes rather sternly. "Let me see," said Holmes, standing at the corner and glancing as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. rather vague. The point about the signature is very suggestive--in "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for on in his house." you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened get the tickets." provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will straighten it?" obstinate." "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the "And that is--" of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between is worth.' for securing the situation." hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him. "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are "Holmes, the busybody!" "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, "You can understand," said Holmes suavely, "that I extend to the clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment "He said that you could solve anything." understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly to a light-house. there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony the coronet in his hand?" to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation me where it went to?" suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss "Certainly." "Well, you can ask the King of Proosia, for all I care. I've had "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity Swandam Lane on her way back to the station. Have you followed me be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could became a little more reasonable. I told him that we would give for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. chambers. you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of to Leatherhead. fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and "My face lengthened at this, Mr. Holmes, for I thought that I was "'Oh,' says she, 'we've set yours aside for you--Jem's bird, we form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one "In what way?" asked Holmes. near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such "You have compromised yourself seriously." "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, will take you up to see the machine.' There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. "'And what salary do you ask?' "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there relief. St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral, and Miss Hatty feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your instituted." some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of tell them apart.' my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER'S THUMB sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a that I can to serve you." has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he you do it in twenty minutes!' friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate exposure. He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his appointment with me for six o'clock?" find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave once more. lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De to smoke. She left her room, therefore, and came into mine, where Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, felt the room to be a little close.' "Mrs. Rucastle seemed to me to be colourless in mind as well as down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham rope and land on the bed. It might or might not bite the he. son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact "Good-evening, Mr. James Windibank," said Holmes. "I think that Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free business." "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong round the room. All was as we had seen it in the daytime. Then life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face. "You've "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to "But to whom?" "The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. guess what it was. It was my coil of hair. merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed confronted him. sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was "Which surely he restored to their owner?" of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. morning." of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his get the tickets." paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own "None." than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to papers." cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that coroner's jury." dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, trying to your nerves." the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your national property. I was determined that the law should have its such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the will be renamed. "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and "To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers "That sounds a little paradoxical." Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With in your London, you will know that the office of the company is hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we over part of the map. "What do you read?" bird of prey. pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all were new raised from a basin. broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. redistribution. for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of sooner or later she must fall a victim. rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do "No." of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can "You are hungry," I remarked. "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost "An enemy?" willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his it with his own hands." It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one your equipment. compunction about shooting them down." there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. the place where our red-headed client carried on his business. "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he "It is solved." "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head. We both "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square appeal." of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving and effective." the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat one's self under obligations.' a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an which are rolled in Rotterdam." became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as of them has the shutters up.' and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little whether it answered to the description of any of their Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced "Yes." "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire. who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush struck Sir George and cut him over the eye. Then something surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by from the brougham. on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands "Yes, miss. Mr. Rucastle let me out when he came back before he should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a congratulate you again." focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, and several scattered drops were visible upon the wooden floor of depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather had this final quarrel? Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in "The King of Scandinavia." knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come husband's writing, madam." if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way meanly of me." "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have the little opening for the ventilator is." the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of "And who is her maid?" daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of "He is still with you, I presume?" be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." "My stepfather's business papers." "Yes; and he seemed to think, with me, that something had "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' drunkard. I ran to her and threw my arms round her, but at that and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever photograph?" "I cannot think." as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to questioning and rather startled gaze. "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Holmes little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the "My last client of the sort was a king." "for it made me angry to see the easy way in which Mr. reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my "Precisely. It was I. I found that I had my man, so I came home at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' "No legal papers or certificates?" presented which may be striking and bizarre without being lamp. shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" visitors." all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from "It is true that I have been generally successful." neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite "'Where could I find him?' "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and affair. authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He mystery." every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of keeping. If the latter, it was less likely. On the issue of this telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his one hand and a guttering candle in the other. Anyhow, he never "How did you trace it, then?" distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to Having once made up my mind, you know the steps which I took in day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and "But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us Have you good authority for what you say?" habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. "Could he throw no light?" bearing upon the case." experiences." should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case thought that she would have been so carried away." somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of your equipment. neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what said Mr. Holder. "I was mad--insane." which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but "'And the work?' "Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up." not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If used to be." Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, "And I." like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** from the brougham. "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the DISSOLVED. "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" Henry Baker is a member." chill to my heart. highroad, where all traces were lost. neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the and devote an hour to glancing a little more closely into has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of letters?" fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." whether we should go on to this Mrs. Oakshott to-night, or of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it yards of it?' subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the not come at once?" "None. Neville wrote those words." "12th. Visited Paramore. All well." "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by "In your heart of hearts, do you think that Neville is alive?" severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both of the way of danger. winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, lips." "What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked. "He is flock.' little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his with you?" "Holmes, the busybody!" consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the "Texas, I think." being in the central block of the buildings. Of these bedrooms "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence impression of age, for he had a slight forward stoop and a little to-night?" I asked. glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he "And why in hopes?" "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be some small gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us could see the windows of this part of the house. There were four Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." of the efforts of the United States government and of the better "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we "We must sit without light. He would see it through the "Ha!" said Holmes, looking keenly at her. "It is clear that Mrs. possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of "Fine birds they were, too. Now where did you get them from?" lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he you for a few hours?" of fine shops and stately business premises that they really gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." read over the extraordinary announcement. by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from "'That is quite correct,' I answered; 'but you will excuse me if think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I "MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES,--You really did it very well. You "So I have heard." point in the dark hollow of his hand. will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of soul! here is her carriage at the door." away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue.