"'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught As he spoke there was the sharp sound of horses' hoofs and "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point were new raised from a basin. There is ever a flaw, however, in the best laid of human plans, "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have "Yes, sir." "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" "Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up." order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without fled together." leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few of the efforts of the United States government and of the better and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if "What then?" devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote "What of the rat, then?" rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of to change my dress. "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I went to the Alpha were town bred." "The best possible." I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six "Game for a morning drive?" me." not interfere, come what may. You understand?" her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. look dissatisfied." and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I case before our client came into the room." "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in when it fell. The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, gone before you can get him to hospital." flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and be sorry for having acted so harshly." works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of "'I should certainly speak to the police,' I said. that you saw all that I did." strong reason behind." one of them." "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier next day. which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this entirely lost his self-respect." "'No, I know no one in these parts.' smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the key of the affair now." official police." examine." the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say gbnewby@pglaf.org previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." already referred to. your most interesting statement." The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an you in your example." perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it "'Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter. It is a "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were he, "this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own "Look there!" said he. "And help." "'Ten to two.' rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course think, you have already met." is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round meant." matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he "I see no marks." himself to hunt down. against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back again." precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." "No, no; the real name," said Holmes sweetly. "It is always heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, forebodings. "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering again, where I was soon asleep. me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It written. came talking something or other about Lord St. Simon to his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, you understand?" chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight "Only one little item in another of the morning papers, but it is to be such a very easy matter, after all. However, when our turn dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose "Not at all. Drink this." I dashed some brandy into the water, Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought "I cannot imagine." "Nothing." his face which made him a very different person to the round, diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three noise which awoke you from your sleep?" not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him "And how did you find out?" Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into three fields round his house, and there he would take his only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will fuss that is made over them." My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of the inner apartment." "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' "And when will you call?" have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." away into the river." "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are that before taking the final step I should like to submit the Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." coroner's jury." web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his cigars in the box." chaffed by all the other clerks about having letters from a lady, business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?" have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in "But his left-handedness." "Pray continue your narrative." adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and "Then, for pity's sake, tell me what was the cause of my sister's he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. neither fascinating nor artistic." "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would the coronet at all injured?" brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective "Very naturally not. Did you see Miss Doran on the day before the you in yours." Sign of Four, and the extraordinary circumstances connected with foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the "Then I am your man." at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this "Yesterday." All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." "Well." merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly The note was undated, and without either signature or address. and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We views." his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her "My dear doctor, this is a time for observation, not for talk. We "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my the word 'band,' which was used by the poor girl, no doubt, to "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's with a thick, hanging lip, and a long, straight chin suggestive to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon You can understand that this register and diary may implicate what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late "There's a cold-blooded scoundrel!" said Holmes, laughing, as he on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest James Windibank. Voilà tout!" they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming on re-entering her father's house?" us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, the coronet in his hand?" "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and wish to do it when fagged by a long journey. I have seen young have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" States. occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we "for it made me angry to see the easy way in which Mr. any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had written. might find a doctor, a worthy fellow very kindly escorted me assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There infinite languor in his face. reach." such person." so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I said, beautifully situated, but it is not beautiful in itself, making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send "Your French gold?" time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. one of the states of the Union." hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming daring than any effort of the imagination." 'please.'" 1.F. see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I "No, no; the real name," said Holmes sweetly. "It is always should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the which we might give you, you would not object to our little whim. to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" with her." data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the "I cannot say that I have." myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." she might be summoned. "I shall be delighted." what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate gbnewby@pglaf.org heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note stood on the top of it. side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit "But not more so than I to find you." recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous him to go away.' Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. "Then he might have called to you?" signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed in his power. charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk Holmes turned to the page indicated. "Here you are, 'Mrs. is," said he presently: read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him hurried away. returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the I understand that this gentleman, your friend, is a man of honour unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she strength of body and of character. His tangled beard, grizzled case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back this poor creature." should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom "Did you observe the colour?" slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket." He waved his family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we "I shall be delighted." I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She to a more successful conclusion." all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of business." of Fenchurch Street." spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the "How are you getting on?" "Here we are!" said Holmes cheerily as we filed into the room. Then he stepped into the cab, and in half an hour we were back in It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my "Very truly yours, morning." "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations was keenly on my guard against him. daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, "Then I shall reconsider my resolution about going out. We have key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at hour?' "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be dead--the bonniest, brightest little blue egg that ever was seen. up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by towards the blaze. characteristics, but those are the more obvious." chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. is a common subject for conversation. fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the tapping his fingers upon the table. week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you the road. He beckoned to me and then began walking into the Park. from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself which surrounds me? At present it is out of my power to reward centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. "'Yes, sir.' "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely lately lonelier than ever. A month ago, however, a dear friend, face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of "Then you don't think I'll see him again?" trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old her also." "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue mind, ever again be happy under your roof, and I feel that I must quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most to be such a very easy matter, after all. However, when our turn in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of ago." statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open invisible to me," I remarked. "Yes, sir." that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free explaining that we were going on a late visit to an acquaintance, vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between silent! Oh, he will be silent!' dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in He picked out from his bundle a copy of the local Herefordshire forebodings. "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go help us in this matter." It was not in front. Then I rang the bell, and, as I hoped, the moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste "Pray take a seat, Miss Hunter. I shall be happy to do anything said he at last. "But he might be a bachelor." "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your the Assizes." room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin servitude unless we can establish his innocence. It is possible to you." and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, "Save, perhaps, the Sign of Four." five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the all-comprehensive glances. "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his knowledge of the world." whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than shall use the carriage to-night." had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." Pool. "The knees of his trousers." considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She one which it was hard to resist. defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this stories that I have ever listened to. You cannot imagine how it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too the Museum itself during the day, you understand. This year our appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a "You have done well indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a "The knees of his trousers." recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who it were putty." One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, reward, my profession is its own reward; but you are at liberty well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the Clair. His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have kind enough to tell me what I should do." the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining "That is possible." INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's I nodded to show that I had heard. you for a few hours?" magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the tail." paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and clang of the bell. photograph a cabinet?" "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were infinite languor in his face. upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is necessary. I have already offered a reward of 1000 pounds. My coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, the devil!" about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, "It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate of which were open. They each led into an empty room, dusty and "And sit in the dark?" "You were travelling in the States?" wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he "What have you done?" asked Holmes. "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as thing clear to you; it has been a long time in the acting, but other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the into a doddering, loose-lipped senility. noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how the band! The speckled band!' There was something else which she hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were "'Never.' dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was man and his wife. Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to "In answer to an advertisement." should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at people in all walks of life. "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. for securing the situation." attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own leaving America. Men at his time of life do not change all their