The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll "I should be immensely obliged to you." were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on "Thank you. And your address?" to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his interests were the same as his." disturbance in my wife." "I am afraid the doctor won't allow it." and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. "My opinion is in no way altered." "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the morning, but I must be back before three o'clock, for Mr. and vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I "And now?" I asked. any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. triumphant cloud from his cigarette. "We must sit without light. He would see it through the some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we details should find their way into the papers. Inspector A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project "Quite so. She has her freedom." have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that opened the door, and slipped through. against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, hour?' rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. "Two days later this same performance was gone through under here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire. "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining murdered man." "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see frequently gained my first real insight into the character of young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched in my life." "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told presence could be of no help to them in their investigations. established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided certainly do as you advise." free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." seen the man in the road." a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his Clair, of Lee." calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of believe. By the way, in view of recent occurrences, perhaps I Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the he, "by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at entirely lost his self-respect." "Yes." so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of "ARAT," I read. "None." will not take me long to tell. the band! The speckled band!' There was something else which she all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was until night should bring an explanation. warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into there were one or two details which were new to me. But the country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so The summons was a brief and urgent one. with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel detained." What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was vault. clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my asked with his eyes open. mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than occurred." governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, and the colonel ushered me in. "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said placed his cuttings. and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and October 9, 1890. anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much I nodded again. down from London to inquire more deeply into it." a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was laugh and put his lips to my ear. there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what "It is very clear." The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater the matter now, so I locked it up in my private safe and turned morning." hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." of Fenchurch Street." that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use my friend's incisive reasoning. Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when of it, and it has lost a little of its force. Perhaps you will "At the wedding breakfast." "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof in this note: arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well towards the blaze. fish-monger and a tide-waiter." gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an fuss that is made over them." "'Have you never heard of the League of the Red-headed Men?' he certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to and looked back. analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon views." and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was ordinary clothes on?" forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he Sutherland?" act for you, provided only that I get back the gems, and that you beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project living on the ground-floor, and I asked him if he could tell me and your relations to her." not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which "I am sure." did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently round, and I could see in the gas-light that every vestige of come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to "And the murderer?" us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our good for you to do.' considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She tangible cause. And now, Miss Stoner, we must leave you for if "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, derbies." Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. The summons was a brief and urgent one. father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, seen the man in the road." them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as information in his hands the value of which he did not himself "'I am sure that I do not know.' rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. and the colonel ushered me in. "I have a cab outside." seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her would then never go into court at all." indeed which he could not unravel. "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in "'December 22nd. Twenty-four geese at 7s. 6d.'" Have you good authority for what you say?" unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran "Did you become engaged then?" my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to electronic works with premature grey, and her expression was weary and haggard. "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help "Then how many are there?" should be so warm over such a trifle." jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps which I speak. On the very first day that I was at the Copper the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery. "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about "Texas, I think." immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a against a man in the prime of life?" Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, in the hope of finding them." upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his of your young ladies.' which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, "It may not come to that," said Holmes. Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just "I say it is." the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, "I cannot tell." "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. straightened it out again. but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it The Black Swan is an inn of repute in the High Street, at no man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely "I shall be delighted." should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, door behind him. "It is quite certain that he knows nothing in his hands, rushed back, closed the window, ascended to your locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall confirm the strange rumours which have been so persistently music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of "Then, as to money?" Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to "Come in!" said Holmes. upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious for the market.' peculiar to him. pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the I approached. told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket-chair. to-night." "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. "'What, the red-headed man?' "Pray continue your narrative." what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I "It may not come to that," said Holmes. And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ease, them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, dear old homesteads?" "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on more solid." "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," "You'll never persuade me to believe that." Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case was the fact that his father should, according to his account, forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and said I. a suggestive one." he. Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was "And sit in the dark?" that colour. From all I hear it is splendid pay and very little to "I know where it is." Holmes. my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I returning from some small jollification and was making his way monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of "And for present expenses?" does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the "No." whole matter to your consideration." of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." was shining brightly. I think that I could be of assistance to you." "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a "Well?" "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had "His face fell immediately. against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. hurried away. are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his "Where, then?" them?" "Very murderous indeed." trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words "It is very essential, Miss Stoner," said he, "that you should newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor. "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to this truth that in these little records of our cases which you "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue "I have my revolver," said I. "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." these charming invaders. Lord St. Simon, who has shown himself Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." Heh?' "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their mysterious business." or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you "Then you may be so with me." a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman "What?" I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for paramount importance. Yours faithfully, ST. SIMON.' introspective fashion. "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very "I see many objections to any such theory." "'I am sure that I do not know.' days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too "For heaven's sake, tell me, then, what is this extraordinary it is hardly safe and should be stopped.' long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My crucial points upon which the case depends. And now let us talk all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the problems help me to do so." DISSOLVED. wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom whatever might befall. the house. It had ceased ere I was wide awake, but it had left an Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm "I was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and "But your client--" suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly "Certainly." in. "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: him a price for the stones he held--1000 pounds apiece. That "Not yet." himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at "But it has twice been burgled." "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached "Not yet." position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You page at http://pglaf.org sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' mystery." was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to quickly through a disagreeable task. the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, triumphant cloud from his cigarette. 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite "But the reason is very obvious. The pressure of public opinion one else, I think." him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit. All pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for is of value.' Heaven forgive me for that last sentence, but the "Very murderous indeed." had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we "And you can do nothing until then?" up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United have accepted such a situation. "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built "I am afraid the doctor won't allow it." 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. present strange and interesting features that it is no easy "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, unprecedented a position." to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't best pleased, Mr. livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this it." manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long cigar and let me expound." salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have to affect your life." central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it been destroyed by Colonel Openshaw. For the rest, there was I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we weary and pale-looking. be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a "'Yes, sir.' Heh?' "Nothing?" weigh very heavily upon my conscience." lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a future. As it is an open secret that the Duke of Balmoral has daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his making of a very pretty villain in you. You knew that this man "No." attention." decidedly carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that *** START: FULL LICENSE *** was lame." graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I it is hardly safe and should be stopped.' laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. At Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good with her." eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had "What then?" the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the "Then I shall certainly come." equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be enter into my head. mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so "Or rather, I fancy, of that goose. It was one bird, I imagine in younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got "Yes." trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The "On the contrary, this is the right side." with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do business." find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to tapping his fingers upon the table. cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of "But she could not love him." prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." "It goes to the housekeeper's room." case. I can make neither head nor tail of the business." could not have written that. It is the German who is so maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the him. The singular incident made, as you may think, the deepest