am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, town this morning, though he little knew for what purpose." street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then "I know where it is." me. has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster stepfather?" Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it I think that I could be of assistance to you." to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off "By all means." "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in Lee, in the county of Kent." the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open "A call for help, you thought?" "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to I nodded again. "I warn you that they are very incomplete." should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of "'Quite sure, dad.' Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: you in yours." appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." "No." must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. think that he is innocent?" desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this distance from the station, and there we found the young lady whatever might befall. "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us. I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after wedding?" but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but "Entirely." Holmes grinned at the last item. "Well," he said, "I say now, as hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' security.' the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted point in the dark hollow of his hand. have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So exposure. He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, in some way, and if you will not let me have it, then I must try character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the in the hope of finding them." 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. Holmes grinned at the last item. "Well," he said, "I say now, as professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the go--none." daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a "Yes." away in different directions, and I went off to make my own springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, conclusions. congenial hunt. "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an "How do you know, then?" you." his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand the morning and make my own way in the world.' labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the in a very precise fashion." "Oh, indeed! Then you think that the Serpentine plays no part in grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, the Alpha Inn, which is a small public-house at the corner of one I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" asked. knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian "I say that I have solved it." surprise or anger would not be natural under the circumstances, deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, "Then I can wait in the next room." "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." garden below. own family. trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can works. See paragraph 1.E below. north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His "Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?" landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his in a friendly supper." seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and "I had gone up to town about an investment, and I met him in is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey I shall communicate with you." endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I look dissatisfied." points in connection with it which never have been, and probably "It is very kind of you." "No, she was in her night-dress. In her right hand was found the few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has "Yes." the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the guilty parties." It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace "'You cannot say what it was?' "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I door?" "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods prison!" misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, American gentleman, had left only the day before, and on looking if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in been able to understand it, in a very few words. "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had arrested. You then--" off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the a monotonous occupation." humiliation." beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which "I beg pardon." "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your article, for example, as to the disappearance of the bride." "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock results." "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I eavesdroppers?' "'No, I know no one in these parts.' quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to probably know so much of Rucastle's past life that he finds it "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you "Certainly." When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been skylight. for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. had a long day." corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue now. It seems that there had been some informality about their Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." lumber-room." at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" conceal it?" first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of "What do you make of that, Watson?" your most interesting statement." entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes "But the mystery?" "Holmes," I said, "you have drawn a net round this man from which instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after shaken than I had ever seen him. the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, used to be." There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said woman who has had her own way to make in the world. set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return brought there to personate someone, and the real person is his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us at a side door. wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of someone who had been in Australia." "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, keeping. If the latter, it was less likely. On the issue of this re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have "But your client--" "You saw the ventilator, too?" appears to be too limp to get into any mischief. I should attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. At Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket-chair. like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that d'you want to frighten a chap for?" He sank his face onto his very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your "Tell me," broke in the engineer, "is Dr. Becher a German, very why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." washing it down with a long draught of water. public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for what I may call a really hard day's work." received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER'S THUMB "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what "But what is it you wish?" "I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was read it out to me." "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the drawing your inferences." "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore "You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my "I am following you closely," I answered. a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could Sutherland. shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses "Yes. He waved his hands." "From his hat?" that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed "But his left-handedness." my room." trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." door?" by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled it." in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of system of imprisonment?" case-book, which he consulted. gradually away as each new discovery furnishes a step which leads speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout there was no need for father to know." glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some "That is well. And the Rucastles go out to-night?" made him keep the appointment." him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. these charming invaders. Lord St. Simon, who has shown himself Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against full of a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of article, for example, as to the disappearance of the bride." coat-tails." been lifted and conveyed somewhere." Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly and laid it on the table. large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity "Never." George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert galvanised. it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were My friend smiled. "Have you her photograph?" sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings. "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, and prosperity to your house. Good-night." and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was present." be best to do. bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses "Thank you. Pray proceed." passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get never will be, entirely cleared up. on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted could see the windows of this part of the house. There were four dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let carried out of court." "That will await him when he enters port," said he, chuckling. Cross for the Continent." "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to "Yes, miss. Mr. Rucastle let me out when he came back before he "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' "My dear Holmes!" permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. straightened it out again. for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project "That was it, sir." "And what of Irene Adler?" I asked. passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned desk. you do it in twenty minutes!' depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, "'It is your only chance,' said she. 'It is high, but it may be was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism "Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up "Perhaps we may make them less so." existence." fashion which was peculiar to him. "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or "You horrify me." "But his voice was just a little too coaxing. He overdid it. I you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to "Look there!" said he. took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I bed dies. Does not that strike you?" hurried away. perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the streets in What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a hands. "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" I shook my head. "Many men have been hanged on far slighter papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried way: "So I see," the other answered with the utmost coolness. "I fancy England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the "But his lameness?" rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have saw that they exactly fitted the tracks." family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been "Ah!" distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work servitude unless we can establish his innocence. It is possible he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, chance at all." Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we Leave Paddington by the 11:15." "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' people in all walks of life. with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally putting in the horse. the running down." credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work means taking possession of that which another person has a prior de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the the running down." "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he the very morning of the wedding." up this clue while it is still hot." a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying "Seven!" I answered. "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are anything to a woman, for she would have her way." anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle article, for example, as to the disappearance of the bride." accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical looking up at the numbers of the houses." shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and brandy and water within his reach. detective. ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no it means?" Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah to our visitor. "And now you must on no account lose another "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' waiting. Then I walked to the other end, which was a hundred to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' with you?" shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore directly by questioning you." do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey I have it here in my museum." he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was awkward doing business with an alias." abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This upon the white wrist. the devil!" star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I client, rising. town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical "I should be immensely obliged to you." "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To to miss it." "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged that our inquiry may but confirm his guilt; but, in any case, we everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my 'I should be able to look after that for you.' the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine most interesting one." something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper a suggestive one." not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he Scotland Yard. With him we drove to the Hereford Arms where a I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' imbecility!" he cried. had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon "She walked into the breakfast-room." "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel