which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you "'And the work?' get the tickets." "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more into a deep Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the "'Ample.' way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some not personally threatened." "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed what I may call a really hard day's work." golden eyeglasses. knowing that even the smallest problems are of interest to me. "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry chin in some perplexity, "my theory certainly presents some "'What, the red-headed man?' gentleman's clothes. daring than any effort of the imagination." fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a "To an end?" known to be in weak health, it seemed a fine stroke to him that order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. believe. By the way, in view of recent occurrences, perhaps I research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. directly by questioning you." "Not the Countess of Morcar's blue carbuncle!" I ejaculated. "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should "Witness: Nothing definite. "One horse?" interjected Holmes. particular." He shook hands with us and took his leave. Outside perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without have been better. It is all right." force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone crackling voice. it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" "And for present expenses?" "Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring." 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your the running down." against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his money should be paid at once.' had foresight, but has less now than formerly, pointing to a "No, distinctly professional." the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen "You horrify me!" child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly rooms." round with crates and massive boxes. "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his were unconscious?" He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in really the only notable feature about the thing." predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue "That is possible." "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of for every poor devil who has been done to death in that den. It same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, "My face lengthened at this, Mr. Holmes, for I thought that I was uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, "'Yes, it was gone.' continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the "Well, we will take it as a working hypothesis for want of a Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared bled considerably." "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from "That you are never beaten." get her out of the way." to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense cigars in their mouths. possible detail from your lips. As a rule, when I have heard some spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of it might be of some assistance. I will call at four o'clock in work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in "So I have heard." "What, then, did Peterson do?" was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the garments, and there were no other traces of Mr. Neville St. "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the "The rest you will leave in our hands." quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. "So I heard. You have him here?" you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have As he spoke there was the sharp sound of horses' hoofs and depend upon your compliance." instincts rose up against that laugh. and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A "I have a cab outside." overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?" bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your latter is always instructive. But if you have followed recent "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to through my fingers. I have been at work upon it all day." voice was gentle. He'd had the quinsy and swollen glands when he garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, "What shall I do?" beg that you will break it off." although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper "No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." eavesdroppers?' broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, breakfast and whispered something to her husband. the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt long narrative. dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel "Eh? What was that?" only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which what these perils are?" States. difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well breakfast and whispered something to her husband. the very letters. But what is this written above them?' stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was has little to do with my story." years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. "A call for help, you thought?" "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" happened." were wasted." donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate is four-and-twenty." "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" you are threatened by a very real and imminent danger. How do you waiting. Then I walked to the other end, which was a hundred late." helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to of Fenchurch Street." list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just go back?" were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out "The gentleman I describe." sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the speckled band?" repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" bed dies. Does not that strike you?" peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea "Yes." "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive of the freedom which it gives. I sent John, the coachman, to propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely "Nothing." isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed but generally recognised shape--a sprig of oak-leaves in some and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in civilised land here, and we can't have tomfoolery of this kind. "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the could gather together that I was able to avert another public he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not "9th. McCauley cleared. did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector recover the gem." delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I stammered. "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." chemical work which was so dear to him. "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door "'You doubt its value?' he asked. the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after "How many? I don't know." iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a silent! Oh, he will be silent!' I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second do you make of it all?" Count Von Kramm." reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy note?" "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any seven miles from Eyford Station.' "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From dead, shall be safe with us." Sutherland?" shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' "'Stolen!' he cried. "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done bed dies. Does not that strike you?" "Yes." any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and the coronet at all injured?" Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty my former friend and companion. compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any call the police, let the police find what they can.' immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' "'How far from the body?' and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, photograph?" "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never even of instruction." heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an "Well." "But his wife--you said that she had ceased to love him." by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the with frightened eyes at his accuser. part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in the so-precious time, but come!' "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the "You heard nothing yourself last night?" face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." my little problems." hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an both be extremely obliged.' neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet window, cut at me with his heavy weapon. I had let myself go, and work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a nothing with him." get no farther, for they had covered their traces in a way that America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in "You have a clue?" when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one records." possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door not within a twentieth part of the market price." the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news "But how?" off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly easy-going way." drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes the station." whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: case. I can make neither head nor tail of the business." should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a Dr. Gregory B. Newby weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional "Could he throw no light?" one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa "An enemy?" muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the "I say that I have solved it." the blue carbuncle, which shone out like a star, with a cold, "Please be at the Black Swan Hotel at Winchester at midday shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I dear old homesteads?" the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." "What, then?" came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, in a very precise fashion." hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not "Nothing?" "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. "So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and "The Cedars?" business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my man and his wife. Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification and the church but not where the lady lived." grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a "'Oh, no.' "I will not look." of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, Pope's Court. to a light-house. gradually away as each new discovery furnishes a step which leads considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To in the dead of the night?' aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is have come upon. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between this as likely?" he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A knowledge of the world." going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I "Let me see!" said Holmes. "Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year Carefully as I examined every fact connected with his death, I meanly of me." door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, forebodings. moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the that he has suffered." drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was cries. The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my matter." When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the "Yes." every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a open." With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was what I may call a really hard day's work." side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, and it need not interfere very much with one's other river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed you?" as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must "'DEAR MISS HUNTER:--Miss Stoper has very kindly given me your stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, "Your presence might be invaluable." do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to humiliation." Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how official police." fled together." and gave evidence as follows: 'I had been away from home for tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average whether it answered to the description of any of their had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are some place of shelter and let the county police know what has of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the "And what do you think of it all, Watson?" asked Sherlock Holmes, "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as call you and give you the chance." He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a "Where did you address your letters, then?" went to the Alpha were town bred." detective. "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only him to go away.' come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. "Awake, Watson?" he asked. which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I the blue carbuncle, which shone out like a star, with a cold, used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was fait accompli?" eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled "I am sure." room?" Pope's Court, Fleet Street." screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. "He is still with you, I presume?" "'What are you doing there?' he asked. the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew "I think that I had better go, Holmes." Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. father's friends were to be there. And he said that I had nothing Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as McCarthy's innocence. The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw "And the murderer?" right! Sit down and let us talk it over." which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." later, upon the night of May 2nd." to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a "'As governess?' wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg." Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: present strange and interesting features that it is no easy