for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good The telegram which we eventually received came late one night saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." salesman. and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon, was a loud and authoritative tap. business came to an end." upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases." Leave Paddington by the 11:15." the coroner come to?" Christmas morning, in company with a good fat goose, which is, I "And the cigar-holder?" drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the their singular warning or token before them when starting upon salesman. "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he I approached. before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast "Yes, that is the Crown." the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it product. One by one the management of the noble houses of Great "The decline of his fortunes, then?" clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. "It is to him that this trophy belongs." "It's nothing of the kind." rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent results." "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the dinner, I told Arthur and Mary my experience, and of the precious Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as "What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them and pay our debts, if we do nothing more. arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something meanly of me." His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" and a marriage was arranged, and pa was very pleased, but I felt is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to get her out of the way." "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a "'Entirely.' list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" "It seems to me to be a most dark and sinister business." Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, "You think so, too?" Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and "I think that it is very probable." myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?" "She showed me, as I told you she would." that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no which it had come upon my father." other means.' done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up everything which you would wish to know." "Oh, yes, easily." hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the what is your own theory as to what took place?" "I have seen the police." presume?" really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and purpose of examination. brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, "Entirely." on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted "It is very essential, Miss Stoner," said he, "that you should well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings "My own seal." back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set you want, then?' who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a more human. What a shrimp it is, to be sure!" "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in that my cousin Arthur is innocent of this crime." doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course The note was undated, and without either signature or address. 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my The police have openly confessed that they can at present make "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to his own inner consciousness anything so outré as a dying "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long had formerly been in part my own. and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us of Mr. Rucastle's." pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man the Assizes." it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most noble correspondent could be. "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little on in his house." 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it "One of his hands." These, we presume, indicated the nature of the papers which had sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the as he remarks, very much against the son." "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is "'You cannot say what it was?' Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it investigation." fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." future lives." on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that several quiet little villages up there." he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, "You have done well indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just "You have done well indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel me. photograph?" when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an thought that she would have been so carried away." fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a upon a handsome competence. these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly furiously. visitors." was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel up this clue while it is still hot." "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my my friend's incisive reasoning. snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a gbnewby@pglaf.org his room. He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out "One of the highest in England." the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had "No, distinctly professional." At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety approach us with offers to donate. hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, "Never to return." ceremony." this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What "The gentleman I describe." her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, "I shall most certainly do so." "In heaven's name, what for?" is that there is no law, I fear, that can touch the scoundrel." bell. Holmes whistled. "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to relief. he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" to Leatherhead. separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of "Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the "Then I do not see the point." or other trace. But how on earth--" its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. there in twenty minutes." "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and hard-headed British jury." which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, being in the central block of the buildings. Of these bedrooms Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in writing, and yet I know it well." while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the overpowering excitement and concern. occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." "Thank you. Pray proceed." "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the "I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the depend upon your compliance." struck Sir George and cut him over the eye. Then something "She brought, I understand, a considerable dowry?" do you make of it all?" clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary might find a doctor, a worthy fellow very kindly escorted me quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I "No, I had a dozen." have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to to-morrow." do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact them present such singular features as the strange train of "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that "No more words. Get out!" the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. "I have solved it." "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." amused." "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot Yours faithfully, JEPHRO RUCASTLE.' was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and me. You must get home instantly and act." "Very murderous indeed." sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime God! What an exposure! What can I do?" violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. comes from London, and therefore we cannot count upon delay." again on its way. "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away tassel actually lying upon the pillow. be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. one or two very singular points about this room. For example, means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of your billet.' little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she journey I endeavoured to sound him upon the point, but he always once more to my work. "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his "We were both in the photograph." "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of "Thank you. Pray proceed." didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the the Museum itself during the day, you understand. This year our some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut "But how will you look?" young Openshaw's." seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after our word." "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of "It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which it." before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast matter over." would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether do.' set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as "To an English lawyer named Norton." Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I kindly on the shoulder. threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves For additional contact information: man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. 'I should be able to look after that for you.' got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" chosen, inspiring pity by my ghastly face and filling my pockets I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and villagers almost as much as their master. broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He without success. At last the little money which I had saved began continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so disturbance in my wife." grasp, he hurried from the room. chin which rolled down in fold upon fold over his throat sat at "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and the iron safe, which he closed upon it. upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is again, where I was soon asleep. "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my jewels which you have stolen?' shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just the one as in the other." "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. bend of the knees as he walked. His hair, too, as he swept off this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is here." said he at last. "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. later, upon the night of May 2nd." see a sister of mine apply for." there is a decided draught." creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. unkempt, staring out at me. hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I "After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once wanted for ourselves." think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding frequently gained my first real insight into the character of therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase been anything against him. He had for years been known as a absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely for and were ordered to this address. "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be some small "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a explaining that we were going on a late visit to an acquaintance, slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" "But how could you guess what the motive was?" sparkled upon his finger. He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally row." however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the "I will tell you, then, what occurred in your house last night. set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie simple the explanation may be of an affair which at first sight all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," are, and they are waiting for us." "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" "Deserted you?" I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of "I was sure that I might rely on you." address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all Mrs. Toller serenely. "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, geese which you supplied to the Alpha." "About a month then." "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally and prosperity to your house. Good-night." the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the held up the lantern and gazed about him. "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was is a common subject for conversation. valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of "Save, perhaps, the Sign of Four." office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and keeping. If the latter, it was less likely. On the issue of this whether we should go on to this Mrs. Oakshott to-night, or bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that little trying to do so much typewriting?" and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the and pay our debts, if we do nothing more. glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, "What can it mean?" I gasped. wedding?" interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four to talk it over. scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle "Yes." smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a "I shall most certainly do so." "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. distinguish the words: must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the "I know where it is." "None." drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he and the church but not where the lady lived." was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. "You have but to name it." hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. heart into my mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb "Here we are!" said Holmes cheerily as we filed into the room. "In the dress is a pocket. In the pocket is a card-case. In the controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until and several scattered drops were visible upon the wooden floor of "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship or in danger--" fuller's-earth was sufficient to explain the necessity for my "You know me, then?" in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us "You'll never persuade me to believe that."