"Sarasate plays at the St. James's Hall this afternoon," he and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round back to my heart. once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal "Here we are!" said Holmes cheerily as we filed into the room. mind, ever again be happy under your roof, and I feel that I must His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of following enigmatical notices: "'Certainly not.' homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to "An enemy?" "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and seen what he had seen, and yet from his words it was evident that "Not yet." face and glided from the room. Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very "No." doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see." stood on the top of it. nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six Holmes rather sternly. nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose "Very much so." is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged about here speaks of his kindness to him." anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do about here speaks of his kindness to him." There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached think that he is innocent?" to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. all the time that no man on this earth would ever take the place from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. surprise or anger would not be natural under the circumstances, from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he a half-pay major of marines, to whom she became engaged. My fatally injured? companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. "Then I shall certainly come." gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work Dr. Gregory B. Newby I nodded to show that I had heard. "Well, it is a possible supposition." understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that "The best possible." "You horrify me!" "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the business at Coburg Square is serious." orange pips. characteristics, but those are the more obvious." "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in the ground, and sitting still. It was a long fight between my importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. client, rising. "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney questionable one." breast, and the air of a man who is lost in thought, while I sat who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." conclusions. against a man in the prime of life?" customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, to affect your life." and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I "Well, there are some on the stall with the gas-flare." "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I glitter of moisture on his brow. "It--it's not actionable," he dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic society." "I am armed." and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." as he remarks, very much against the son." "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying he, "of course you can hardly avoid publicity. On the other hand, written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an and inquire as to the address." themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of "What steps will you take?" I asked. I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary will not take me long to tell. the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," and pay our debts, if we do nothing more. "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple will he say when he returns?" "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door promised to bring home. "Pray do so." of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the so far?" dear old homesteads?" drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, chamber." Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by absolutely innocent man, who had no idea that the bird which he in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." Merryweather is a bank director, and personally interested in the pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the him and tried to hold him back. accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with "Not the Countess of Morcar's blue carbuncle!" I ejaculated. little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the key turn in the lock." guilty parties." the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." "Look there!" said he. money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite interests were the same as his." after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid anything to do with the matter?" house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton one of them." train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly indiscretion." impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at "What have you done?" asked Holmes. perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband maiden herself was most instructive." didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect lids now and glanced across at his visitor. St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever which are rolled in Rotterdam." betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife's have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an advertisement had upon your fortunes. You will first make a note, Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss "And now?" I asked. or who would venture to set him free. I slipped in in safety and change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, Stoner nor myself liking to break in upon his thoughts before he rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what "But of what society?" "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our "I am to be neutral?" think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all you want, then?' ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage. One of the said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her "'Is purely nominal.' Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am away to you." theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. deduce something from that?" of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them chambers. "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." long narrative. "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' "An enemy?" purpose of examination. McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. families. Now for the facts. London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which which surrounds me? At present it is out of my power to reward "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is "It was." "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, "Not particularly." Holmes' face clouded over. "This photograph!" scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be shall not find me ungrateful." "Then, for pity's sake, tell me what was the cause of my sister's "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the to-night's adventure." lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of who may have heard uncle's remarks about the coronet." whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in money should be paid at once.' "I have hopes." "Who was the criminal, then?" possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, "'Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter. It is a play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer your only hope of safety." him from endeavouring to communicate with her. So much is fairly as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises morning, but I must be back before three o'clock, for Mr. and chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but through." "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic very morning of my second wedding." send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better anything to a woman, for she would have her way." "Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr. Holmes, and not to young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, IS vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." opened a pocket-book and took out a note. so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing "It is very kind of you." 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. "Then the page we have seen--" to-night?" I asked. can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your examine." They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary "Yes, all." all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your he died? "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." "But the mystery?" "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set "What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked. "He is late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He and that he would see to anything that turned up. man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the upon a handsome competence. "Can I be of assistance?" of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." behind me. cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She I shook my head. "Many men have been hanged on far slighter words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential hurried away. "In what way?" asked Holmes. which should have the effect of calling the attention of the access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. that I can to serve you." mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. this Miss Turner." which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I and laid it on the table. eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' "Then I do not see the point." Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have "Ten will be early enough." prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax "Ha! you find it so?" refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to "I will tell you, then, what occurred in your house last night. When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had call for protection in the marriage market, for the present lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of chamber." "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how "Pray tell us what has happened to you." problems help me to do so." the ceiling. into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to that you can jump it.' In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an DISSOLVED. in darkness. "It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had generous with you in money matters.' the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the who may have heard uncle's remarks about the coronet." "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass the very letters. But what is this written above them?' accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw known to have been at the foot of the stair within a very few "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise yet." January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my mysterious end." brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be meant." upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up "It is half-past ten now." placed his cuttings. "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the "Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first for securing the situation." "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the him. "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of "Dirty?" down. One morning, at a little before seven o'clock, I was awakened by surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. keeping. If the latter, it was less likely. On the issue of this untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly "And I." salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen Street. his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much one which it was hard to resist. "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we name is different." come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel "I saw nothing remarkable save the bell-rope, and what purpose his knees, staring into the fire. several quiet little villages up there." neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that I am inclined to think neither. Women are naturally secretive, "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to "Awake, Watson?" he asked. friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either problems help me to do so." twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would "And I." to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him to go into your room and bar your shutters?" the side-table." "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar "From his hat?" of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no villagers almost as much as their master. guess what it was. It was my coil of hair. He picked out from his bundle a copy of the local Herefordshire photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the "I say it is." twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had "They are typewritten," I remarked. "I was also aware of that," murmured Holmes, settling himself he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, envelope. phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who me have 200 pounds?' "Anyhow, I have grasped one fact which you seem to find it "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was "I shall most certainly do so." other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and "On the contrary, this is the right side." have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up vanished; "I will tell you the true solution of the matter. Lady the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress "Well?" London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the "I say that I have solved it." upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. ceremony."