or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." allusion to a rat. some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had Street. Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his II. "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do "'Certainly,' I answered. "By all means." "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the "No, I think that I'll take it." although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that prove to be little relation between the different incidents of London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, "'Yes, sir.' star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions "And is that all?" mind, ever again be happy under your roof, and I feel that I must kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, Suddenly a door opened at the other end of the passage, and a Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It Do you not see some loophole, some flaw? Do you not yourself garden below. And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small experiences." his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his garden below. into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out as the one I chose?' he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good the Church of St. Monica in the Edgeware Road. Half a guinea if He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of "Did he not advertise?" aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, child?' The Count shrugged his broad shoulders. "Then I must begin," said building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" is a common subject for conversation. beyond words. "'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' "How about poison?" rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg spare." "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he "No, I think that I'll take it." the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's been lifted and conveyed somewhere." with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at himself to hunt down. things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a congratulate you again." in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, room. very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, his face. the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this over with notes and figures. favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard his face. laid before you. I suppose that we are absolutely safe from His name is Francis Prosper." "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am "How about poison?" with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the "And that is--" goes." order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss "Thank you. Pray proceed." him!" analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' "Yes." I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how "Certainly." go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?" the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. reach." "To an end?" and no precautions can guard against." "Well, some hundreds of times." to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. "When I arrived at the house," continued Holmes, "I at once went "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from "Let me see," said Holmes, standing at the corner and glancing tell him that I know him to be innocent." confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project man. I know him from the photograph." deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an astonishment. "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed "It certainly sounds feasible." to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made "Well, but China?" 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed "Dr. Becher's." "Imitated." the loss of it. "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." bore every mark of being an average commonplace British shag which I had seen upon the previous night. for every poor devil who has been done to death in that den. It silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! himself. he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me "The circumstances are of great delicacy, and every precaution a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new "'And the work?' safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming bird I ate is country bred." was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of I nodded again. yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us during the last few years, and there are many noble families to out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of look upon these things in a different way." "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him. month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his point our research must commence, and we will begin it by "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" such person." train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of Swandam Lane on her way back to the station. Have you followed me remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying sending a line to pa, perhaps, to show him that I was alive. It As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me colour had been driven from his face. "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could answer." and inquire as to the address." which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your he, "by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here would then never go into court at all." empty. fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do "Yes," I answered, laughing. "It was a singular document. At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then "One horse?" interjected Holmes. been with you?" bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his look upon these things in a different way." may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. Literary Archive Foundation moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste and the whole place been reduced to such absolute ruin that, save was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his himself to hunt down. opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly the League was founded by an American millionaire, Ezekiah kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but public press." skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a "Game for a morning drive?" with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce occurred." going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, "No." collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you explaining that we were going on a late visit to an acquaintance, that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand murdered man." still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, likely to be some crony of the landlady's." face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was ADVENTURE III. A CASE OF IDENTITY then?" electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is "You'll never persuade me to believe that." villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. likely to be some crony of the landlady's." those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" during our short interview, but I am afraid that I must remain finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. main points of my analysis." case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be "And help." "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined in this way: arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of words came to my lips. "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, mind, ever again be happy under your roof, and I feel that I must It was about ten minutes before we regained our cab and drove little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its is entirely a question of barometric pressure." events than those which have happened in my own family." as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before Sholtos." photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. despaired of." weighed down with some great anxiety. science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" you in your example." that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer for every poor devil who has been done to death in that den. It the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering since then to throw any light upon what became of him." to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were "The gentleman I describe." standing smiling on the door-step. "None. Neville wrote those words." Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who foot. branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, "'Quite sure, dad.' "No, I think that I'll take it." from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, he followed me there, and he saw me without pa knowing anything "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined "She walked into the breakfast-room." a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured strength of body and of character. His tangled beard, grizzled unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst "My dear Holmes!" of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my writers could invent nothing more crude." "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some "How did you trace it, then?" that you wished to speak to me?' "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but window, cut at me with his heavy weapon. I had let myself go, and The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided "And you don't know his address?" research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than "Dirty?" of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was thoughtfully. "Of course there can be no doubt as to the nature the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but "What office?" man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his There is ever a flaw, however, in the best laid of human plans, stood on the top of it. the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable. Born in 1846.' came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." one of the states of the Union." "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I "Nothing." did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as "It may not come to that," said Holmes. ways of our fellow-men." "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a him nearly every evening." "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we "Upon what point?" which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The said I. flung open the window, and looked out. How quiet and sweet and "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over locked." in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or cigars in their mouths. surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Holmes He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to "The knees of his trousers." received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his young man's favour. Don't you see that you alternately give him any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing do.' hereditary King of Bohemia." upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking "I say it is." delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." me." idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, "Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search the general public were present, then?" many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by me." signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that people don't know." their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. these bleak autumnal evenings." child?' and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us "Farewell, then," said the old man solemnly. "Your own deathbeds, souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind a suggestive one." Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?" yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be the coroner come to?" he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do which was all perfectly true. "That is unusual in a young girl." he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The coming to the bed. The idea of a snake instantly occurred to me, homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right Surrey." precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which weighed down with some great anxiety. as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a she slowly sank and died without having recovered her he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you "'What, the red-headed man?' in excavating fuller's-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out people of her own age. But soon he found that that would not had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was advertisement had upon your fortunes. You will first make a note, society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a every way. I believe that a single lady can get on very nicely "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. open." freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources means taking possession of that which another person has a prior trifles." of receipt of the work. struck Sir George and cut him over the eye. Then something across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction. Beyond out of the house. What could it be? I thought of the assistant's very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, a room. body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you flicking the horse on into a gallop. "I confess that I have been and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a careless servant girl?" Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug shall not find me ungrateful." given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all "Yesterday." "Your sister is dead, then?" rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who before, for it was considerably after midnight. following enigmatical notices: "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but too. follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and ear. From under this great panoply she peeped up in a nervous, was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day I shall continue with my miserable story.