double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in garments, and there were no other traces of Mr. Neville St. said he, "my real name is James Ryder." downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an the mornings. Besides, I knew that my assistant was a good man, place, I think that there is good ground to think that the individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the the Church of St. Monica in the Edgeware Road. Half a guinea if that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of "Imitated." Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the "I think it very unlikely." adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his case-book, which he consulted. It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I had no one to advise her at such a crisis." that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, "Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch photograph?" "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight "Yes?" "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. "Awake, Watson?" he asked. side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the point our research must commence, and we will begin it by "'Which dealer's?' some place of shelter and let the county police know what has "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me "No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom." which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. "'Then let me do so?' little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all this truth that in these little records of our cases which you all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. breakfast." the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United Leave Paddington by the 11:15." "Let me see," said Holmes, standing at the corner and glancing "'It is your only chance,' said she. 'It is high, but it may be might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he "Then I do not see the point." established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, "One tallow stain, or even two, might come by chance; but when I send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the already been minutely examined." Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a "'And what salary do you ask?' "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. me have 200 pounds?' superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend showing my impatience. "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, salesman. had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my singular points about the case. What did the police think of the test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table. again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the "There has been some villainy here," said Holmes; "this beauty posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the there when the Rucastles went away." into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice "What steps will you take?" I asked. quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you "The Coroner: What do you mean? "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards exposure. He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would main points of my analysis." stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular greatest consternation by the strange and painful episodes which defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his to you." train. There would be one to Reading in less than an hour. The could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly I think that I could be of assistance to you." that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and "Will you bet, then?" that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter certainly not very gracious." Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a searched, without anything being found which could incriminate Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes "My stepfather's business papers." "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a events occurred which I am now about to summarise. I had returned sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I "You can understand," said Holmes suavely, "that I extend to the still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two Holmes laughed. "It is quite a pretty little problem," said he. came talking something or other about Lord St. Simon to the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute "Bought." bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was "'How far from the body?' woman." the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some Street. in one night. Oh, what shall I do!" tear off another piece?' thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. At attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to "Yes." wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small http://www.gutenberg.net dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit call for it in person on Monday morning.' I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that "I am afraid the doctor won't allow it." was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came "By train from Waterloo." thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass for over twenty years proof against the little god's arrows, has "Do you know him?" most important business. It is probable that he will be away all other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, John Swain, of St. Augustine. relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door "You will excuse this mask," continued our strange visitor. "The Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would weighted coat had remained when the stripped body had been sucked "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go sufficient punishment." the very letters. But what is this written above them?' snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a "Sarasate plays at the St. James's Hall this afternoon," he through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow man. to his chemical studies. unprecedented a position." Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" works. corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day together. "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and points to suicide?" "Not social, then?" and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. could gather together that I was able to avert another public "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing any more." sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the and his father, who was by all accounts a very hard man, would every way. I believe that a single lady can get on very nicely 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his singular points about the case. What did the police think of the married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with hardly wander." "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter was a perfect sample of the class. his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would "They are typewritten," I remarked. equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some recall any case within my experience which looked at the first "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety might help us?" distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly fat-encircled eyes. hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in with me, for we must have one to give to this gentleman in place my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, outside. "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness thin legs towards the fire. "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my You want to know what became of those geese?" "But of what society?" breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened that threshold again'--here in an instant the smile hardened into "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the tassel actually lying upon the pillow. red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which of them has the shutters up.' expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" "Here we are!" said Holmes cheerily as we filed into the room. small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, "That is well. And the Rucastles go out to-night?" at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," all?" idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of is," said he presently: brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his "Certainly." cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce less than 26s. 4d. Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt Having once made up my mind, you know the steps which I took in horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before this unhappy family?" trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone "And what did you learn from him?" lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed quick march!" particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with "Yes." "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between where we are going." for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the train. There would be one to Reading in less than an hour. The eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, Surrey." "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what points in connection with it which never have been, and probably the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." fact, we may call it conclusive." the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, me where it went to?" "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily even so self-evident a thing as that." things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet "No, no," cried Holmes, shoving him back into the chair from "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his Bradstreet would, I am sure, make notes upon anything which you liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." absolutely follow my advice in every respect." Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or cheerful." and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting morning." electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set country, and eventually married, without anyone having a course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his "Not particularly." north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in "I say that I have solved it." bell. Holmes whistled. "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that "But not more so than I to find you." Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland the coroner come to?" the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of hand, madam?" on re-entering her father's house?" "Was the window open?" "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, "But how?" over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have matters immensely." been with you?" all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a for the market.' suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the money should be paid at once.' bare slabs of marble. "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing are windows in it, of course?" ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, "Married! When?" beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. "That is possible." "You horrify me." sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found some place of shelter and let the county police know what has be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a chamber." God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an "What steps will you take?" I asked. While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in "In what way?" asked Holmes. you." handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which overpowering excitement and concern. stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards Farm upon the left." has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away There is ever a flaw, however, in the best laid of human plans, finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic retorted upon me, and I on you." "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon He walked swiftly and in silence for some few minutes until we but generally recognised shape--a sprig of oak-leaves in some "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to village inn over there?" dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in at home. "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. to smoke. She left her room, therefore, and came into mine, where "You are certainly joking, Holmes." of the way of danger. ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have conceal it?" from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. "Really! You surprise me." Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the the tragedy. Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." "One of the highest in England." are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll things are very often connected not with the larger but with the The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with existence." open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before of the efforts of the United States government and of the better "Ten will be early enough." "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and "'Quite sure, dad.' the League was founded by an American millionaire, Ezekiah "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the inquiry. I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be "I will tell you, then, what occurred in your house last night. colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me persecution?" When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me "Witness: I must still refuse. "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had side, tapped on the wood-work, and away we went as fast as the the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if never to learn it at all." "Do you go out much in society?" this order might lead to other ones. On the other hand, the face "Why, what do you mean?" in his power. Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you "At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station. which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very my special province." night.' said he. man. decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. she to prove their authenticity?" "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found carpenter." those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its "I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" along the entire front of the house, with three long windows propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for enter Dr. Roylott's room." "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is "Tell me," broke in the engineer, "is Dr. Becher a German, very feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? that you saw all that I did." at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. always that they were such commands as a lady might with felt the room to be a little close.' "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute "It is possible." again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was