1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through carpenter." possible detail from your lips. As a rule, when I have heard some for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes. It was a a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless Edgeware Road. the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. photograph?" from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of round table, and a large iron safe were the principal things abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly fire. You quite follow me?" quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that The events in question occurred in the early days of my points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." fatally injured? Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the residing alone in lodgings in London. By profession I am a the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement away into the river." gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and what I may call a really hard day's work." "What will you say?" I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of Holmes turned to the page indicated. "Here you are, 'Mrs. interests were the same as his." you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at Doctor, of the paper and the date." by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. looking up at the numbers of the houses." uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is "But she will refuse." IS "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you "It is possible." "No." some little use," he remarked. "'L'homme c'est rien--l'oeuvre case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard searched, without anything being found which could incriminate reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the a good hundred miles off by now." know--faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to "I cannot imagine." thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of States. "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will As he spoke the gleam of the side-lights of a carriage came round shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had cigars in the box." "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known lamp. that I can to serve you." reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied "Where did you address your letters, then?" the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that "But how?" We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, "What steps will you take?" I asked. I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was "How do you know, then?" whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at serve you!" He turned and clattered down the stairs as hard as he he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to for over twenty years proof against the little god's arrows, has "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our "'Surely it would be better to take no notice.' came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the depend upon your compliance." "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we "Game for a morning drive?" himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying think that any burglar could have done. was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria "'December 22nd. Twenty-four geese at 7s. 6d.'" "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that where she found matters as described by the last witness. agent, while the other was a long, thin, sad-faced man, with a are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project known to have been at the foot of the stair within a very few XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab matter here, I believe." He rummaged amid his newspapers, "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no he, "of course you can hardly avoid publicity. On the other hand, "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and you." which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased shall not find me ungrateful." "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips "Yes, there are nearly always some there." his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. will confine my attentions to the excellent bird which I perceive hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for I think that I could be of assistance to you." was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' "None." SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to of it, and it has lost a little of its force. Perhaps you will Holmes' room. "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped fish-monger and a tide-waiter." I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism "Why, it's a dummy," said he. bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' of the one which your family is now devouring." crime. key of the affair now." Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek at home. round and wave him away like that.' "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he instincts rose up against that laugh. I shall communicate with you." at once see that someone had passed out. I could distinguish the prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is "DEAR MR. HOLMES:--I am very anxious to consult you as to whether panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." Foundation "'Most admirably.' lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. business in the City. She little knew what. it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; "It was an hour's good drive." It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the "Because he was handy and would come cheap." the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the latter is always instructive. But if you have followed recent before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him. me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the "'In my own bureau.' "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought The summons was a brief and urgent one. paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with We made our way downstairs as quietly as possible, and out into "You have done well indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET "Holmes, the busybody!" of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you sound at heart." are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others For additional contact information: I shook my head. "Many men have been hanged on far slighter but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a Street. It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the "And what did you see?" returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my Edgeware Road. going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' "'I am sure if I had known--' tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to robbery, no record of strangers having been seen upon the roads. going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. "Showing that she had struck a light and looked about her when "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's assist you in forming an opinion." Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project explaining that we were going on a late visit to an acquaintance, "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main "Your presence might be invaluable." "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my absolutely at home. Tell us what you can, but stop when you are dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to "No, your secret lies in London. It is there that I shall seek and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven before, for it was considerably after midnight. transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do suddenly upon us." drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. was a loud and authoritative tap. "At what time?" they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which matter." individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are Foundation room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. whole matter to your consideration." acquaintance?" classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement row." what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, "It must be recovered." at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all never will be, entirely cleared up. Sherlock Holmes, with his finger-tips together and his eyes to very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler which should have the effect of calling the attention of the drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a corner of the building. "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I "That is unusual in a young girl." or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows appears to be too limp to get into any mischief. I should have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. shag which I had seen upon the previous night. "I have seen the police." station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." "And help." stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by the nursery. know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel green of the new foliage. "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining when it fell. The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little "Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road--249," read Holmes. furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying "Who by?" "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you six. Come in!" Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself been." Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, placed his cuttings. work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any that "We must have a cab." were quarrels, and this, I am sure, was one of them." Street. column of the Morning Post, and dates, as you see, some weeks "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger "Then, for pity's sake, tell me what was the cause of my sister's fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." with me, for we must have one to give to this gentleman in place business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and shapeless pulp. I threw myself, screaming, against the door, and your co-operation." where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one half-raised in her eagerness, her body slightly bent, her head knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, upon a handsome competence. exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery. season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a crowd. "That's no good." "Ample." with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up must be when I saw the door open.' have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." brain must have something in it." calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and strength of mind to control. the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste enter Dr. Roylott's room." "And Miss Sutherland?" the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it is four-and-twenty." got her packet, and found herself at exactly 4:35 walking through arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only "At least," said I as we heard her quick, firm steps descending the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this asked with his eyes open. be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some "The best possible." "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I Clair. His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which along the entire front of the house, with three long windows I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with from you?" "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and heart into my mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" half-raised in her eagerness, her body slightly bent, her head platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found events than those which have happened in my own family." I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to stammered. You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a 'please.'" in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a strength of body and of character. His tangled beard, grizzled Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into the road. He beckoned to me and then began walking into the Park. chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have distinguish the words: note?" Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in window when the police appeared." when it fell. The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely certainly not very gracious." if I call to-morrow?" before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling companion. Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It flung open the window, and looked out. How quiet and sweet and has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the as well for his resolution, perhaps, for her pleading face was many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had "Well, I have no connection with any other people who have been the night.' "And why in hopes?" "Yesterday." his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases." front of me. fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a the time of my arrival, and I was informed by the maid that he relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it speckled band?" "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and "Her father is very rich?" X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR few hundred pounds.' make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The people don't know." departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could this case, Watson, if there is nothing else." the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you herself in evening dress, the letter was superscribed to note?" As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very breast, and the air of a man who is lost in thought, while I sat "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness characteristics, but those are the more obvious." "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of "It was only a joke at first," groaned our visitor. "We never a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg." transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and there was no need for father to know." 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door "Yes." the address that was given us in the advertisement. "Yes." nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his tell them apart.' case before our client came into the room." named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the acted in my house last night?" to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that "In answer to an advertisement." assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was