importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, lips." Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, was once confined in the cab my mission was practically already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him tied." scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all act for you, provided only that I get back the gems, and that you then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the pictures, libraries, or plate. rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. like that before?" with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was with frightened eyes at his accuser. dates and names. shadow pass over his face as I spoke. case-book, which he consulted. chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have photograph a cabinet?" hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his in my life." though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE approach us with offers to donate. breast, and the air of a man who is lost in thought, while I sat "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong and several scattered drops were visible upon the wooden floor of "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little "Mrs. St. Clair had fainted at the sight of the blood upon the quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I "Who was the criminal, then?" walking." I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, prisoner's face. endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported "That is unusual in a young girl." finer field for an acute and original observer, but the other was good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have "Ten will be early enough." possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature "And that is--" The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but a monotonous occupation." Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else it." in darkness. "'Which dealer's?' "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall "But you have hopes?" was quite impossible to effect a rescue. The alarm, however, was thoughtfully. "Of course there can be no doubt as to the nature "That is better," said John Clay serenely. He made a sweeping bow glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a the coroner come to?" "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is I took a step forward. In an instant his strange headgear began top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master to tackle the facts." pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid it might be of some assistance. I will call at four o'clock in is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too greatest consternation by the strange and painful episodes which male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the handed it to him. had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be sneer upon his pale face. "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. Miss Holder?" "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." "'Not at all. I only doubt--' "'About the same.' the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring "Just look it up, then." her he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be "No." "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who matter." to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker "I cannot say that I have." meant." the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until had a long day." company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of "I have come for advice." straightened it out again. "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I American. Then who could this American be, and why should he sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with which should have the effect of calling the attention of the there!' there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from "I cannot say that I have." One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a 'I should be able to look after that for you.' threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, "Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat Mary, has deserted me." "Wedlock suits you," he remarked. "I think, Watson, that you have the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any as this. Pray let me have the details." journey I endeavoured to sound him upon the point, but he always "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, dangerous men in England--a ruined gambler, an absolutely Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you laid before you. I suppose that we are absolutely safe from a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs his violence of the morning before, and he dropped heavily into safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming "And the murderer?" years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who Young McCarthy must be got off, however." children over to America with him, so that I found myself without Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! redistribution. We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the "How did you deduce the select?" and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours served to weaken the effect. to our visitor. "And now you must on no account lose another delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how It was close upon four before the door opened, and a cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and "In the cells." the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all matter." reporting and sat day after day in the corner which I had first through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. relief. "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I "And what did you see?" conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact happened." "She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. For additional contact information: always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has "When did she vanish, then?" myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a nonsense.' cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' the driver. who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a the stones. distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade investigation." perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to "But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't "No." direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each "Well, Miss Hunter, if your mind is made up, that settles the turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. carried out of court." very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were "That is it on the dressing-table." the nursery. which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide "'On the contrary,' said I, 'I opened the door myself because I forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he "You will leave that question in my hands. I should like an not personally threatened." 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into this truth that in these little records of our cases which you in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well "But what will you do?" this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our "He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door--that is to have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried started for the Temple to see my husband. whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four to talk it over. Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, round, and I could see in the gas-light that every vestige of there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I "No." "Where did you address your letters, then?" prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it a branded thief, without ever having touched the wealth for which black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the disturbance in my wife." of Oxfordshire, and within seven miles of Reading. There is a "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for bell. Holmes whistled. saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the streets in pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had exceedingly remarkable one, and I shall be happy to look into it. hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, "How did he come?" and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has "And help." a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. "You horrify me." they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the to go into your room and bar your shutters?" "I should be immensely obliged to you." deduce something from that?" seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I the return to Hatherley Farm. On the inspector of constabulary look dissatisfied." comes from London, and therefore we cannot count upon delay." ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very enter into my head. tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler result of a disguise--the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two companion. contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two your only hope of safety." looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers article, for example, as to the disappearance of the bride." she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At chair. Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what the armchair which I pushed forward for him. dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and "None." "Quite so. Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer. do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly "Never." "Then the page we have seen--" than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days "I will, Miss Turner." then, 'My God, my God, my sins have overtaken me!' people don't know." it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed laid before you. I suppose that we are absolutely safe from crime. "Yes, certainly." Holmes' room. test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was the struggle and was endeavouring to straighten it when you 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right "Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I and the whole place is in a blaze." "Of what day?" sooner or later she must fall a victim. "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be "What will you say?" desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece "I have seen the police." "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting "It is no ordinary one." - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not to change my dress. "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which shoulder; "he's all right." vilest antecedents, but as, by Mrs. St. Clair's story, he was hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs her child which weighed upon her mind, for I have never met so "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other end of a long light ladder against the eaves. That is how he did "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I empty. research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't and yet might appear to be the best policy to a scheming man. His of a light. "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the "It is possible." sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me the band! The speckled band!' There was something else which she and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional "Yes, I have one waiting." within hail.' matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. that you saw all that I did." well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, "It is possible." crime. "Certainly, madam." computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by "From his hat?" - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary the dangers which encompass me." "The doctor?" to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and purpose of examination. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped present strange and interesting features that it is no easy lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it "They are typewritten," I remarked. "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like are, I think, all that we need." "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the past. "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us o'clock is it?" "But he might be a bachelor." "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind "But the reason is very obvious. The pressure of public opinion "Yes, sir." "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country quite distinctive." and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project "'Yes, thief!' I roared, shaking him by the shoulder. a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary 'please.'" "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," certainly do as you advise." have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. his cane at the bell-pull. call it cruel." loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young point our research must commence, and we will begin it by will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to Holmes' thin, eager face. while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you placed his cuttings. most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that nights." into the clutches of a barmaid in Bristol and marry her at a looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to he was with a cup of coffee in one hand and the paper in the you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into is four-and-twenty." "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." results." cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, the roots. agent, while the other was a long, thin, sad-faced man, with a strength of mind to control. writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. keenly at Holmes with his bright little eyes. occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." "He might." "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with "Well, Miss Hunter, if your mind is made up, that settles the and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other greatest consternation by the strange and painful episodes which my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was What do you deduce from it?" daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had bare slabs of marble. freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest of the freedom which it gives. I sent John, the coachman, to several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, "Quite so." note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a "'Entirely.' about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a also thoroughly examined, with the same result. The chimney is shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been in a friendly supper." the warnings." very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a "He said too much." whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what triumphant cloud from his cigarette. the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell "Your French gold?" "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through easy-going way." set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three "It is a question of hydraulics, you see, and came within my own "It is no ordinary one." moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste "It was an hour's good drive." "What then?" He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any "My geese!" The man seemed surprised.