the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit me." Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who "Oh, fresh and glossy." "'Yes, sir.' something of him before." take the flies, but not before." essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having into a doddering, loose-lipped senility. "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to for openness, but I was so ashamed of it all that I felt as if I Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." "And sit in the dark?" Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax "9th. McCauley cleared. had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked had died away into the silence from which it rose. he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy "'Certainly not. But why?' has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable. Born in 1846.' "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of d'you want to frighten a chap for?" He sank his face onto his comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. "Quite so. She has her freedom." "And why in hopes?" ear. From under this great panoply she peeped up in a nervous, suddenly upon us." collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of his violence of the morning before, and he dropped heavily into always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever grasp, he hurried from the room. "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which "And it is--" minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was the coronet in his hand?" Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the on re-entering her father's house?" "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was started for the Temple to see my husband. "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was your billet.' of your young ladies.' "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away yelled with the pain. 'There is water in your eyes,' said he as not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before second son of Mr. Armitage, of Crane Water, near Reading. My side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it other, as fresh and trim as possible. something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay some place of shelter and let the county police know what has will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen "My own seal." diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; "Did he not advertise?" reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss the Friday. Was it to be in church?" and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent "You horrify me." "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a is four-and-twenty." inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable "I will get her to show me." it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we acquaintance?" know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul "Not him." were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching foot. Holmes turned to the page indicated. "Here you are, 'Mrs. "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a and do you conceal yourselves behind those. Then, when I flash a fluttered off among the others. but preventing her from injuring another. baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had of Fenchurch Street." the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all me, and I could not think that his explanation of the "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a "Never." others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their "Quite so. She has her freedom." comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' out of the house. What could it be? I thought of the assistant's India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence "'Ample.' remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was "And that is--" "'It is absolutely essential to me,' said he, 'that I should have night.' said he. "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. "Get out!" said he. statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a "And I have some business to do which will take some hours. This these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was the stones. speckled band?" "And did you observe any change in her then?" time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to "Quite so. Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer. place of silver." was a perfect sample of the class. there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose "Yes." "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in "Ah, thereby hangs a rather painful tale. This fellow is madly, misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless "I tell you that it is Friday, man. Your wife has been waiting "As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some trouble and likely to be hanged, has thrown him over utterly and "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the very old mansion. Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and my little problems." for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that the side-table." fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the God! What an exposure! What can I do?" King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a "Oh, yes, easily." month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your one's self under obligations.' "Why, indeed? You seem most fortunate in having an employé who window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered that you wished to speak to me?' isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few "That is it on the dressing-table." mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I his face. "No, your secret lies in London. It is there that I shall seek 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, death." "It's nothing of the kind." "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it "I see many objections to any such theory." detained." you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm once more. the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond "She will not sell." redistribution. scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. less than 26s. 4d. "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to Swandam Lane on her way back to the station. Have you followed me call it cruel." we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever "My opinion is in no way altered." should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a such attractions and accomplishments?' The Black Swan is an inn of repute in the High Street, at no go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND as he folded up the epistle. London for the present?" which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for "Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road--249," read Holmes. Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of politicians who had been sent down from the North. was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though charge against him will break down." bedroom door." soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major had died away into the silence from which it rose. companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with "Entirely." smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to saw that they exactly fitted the tracks." towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, "'Not so many as you might think,' he answered. 'You see it is "And Miss Sutherland?" "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his whole matter to your consideration." either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other at home. prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it quite distinctive." "Where, then?" I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to evidence," I remarked. upon me this morning, and to begin a narrative which promises to "You are hungry," I remarked. "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for grasp, he hurried from the room. direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the "My dear Holmes!" out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would "My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who "Where is it, then?" complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and "Well?" lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. "I am still in the dark." Having once made up my mind, you know the steps which I took in kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a "A client, then?" knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, strode off upon his way. has little to do with my story." quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable the one as in the other." Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic "But she will refuse." "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of problems help me to do so." delirious. ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's Chief Executive and Director somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his the roots. London--quite so! Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table heart into my mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a nonsense.' Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, "What will you say?" for every poor devil who has been done to death in that den. It the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a "Never." and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress me upon any point which I do not make clear." an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' "Yes." "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was what these perils are?" seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, triumphant cloud from his cigarette. perpetrators. For some years the organisation flourished in spite Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it "Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something "He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door--that is to judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house "No, thank goodness, she did not." call the police, let the police find what they can.' upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me "And Miss Sutherland?" that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." "'Very good.' But there was no great difficulty in the first stage of my "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser "That is also quite modern," said the lady. spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." things are very often connected not with the larger but with the convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows see me here to avoid scandal." fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important place no limit on the sum I may draw." should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a young Openshaw's." address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out "She walked into the breakfast-room." delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not lamp. jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly "I should be ungrateful if I were not, seeing what I gained spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of you give your casting vote to?" empty. scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" "On the contrary, this is the right side." business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation disappearance of these gems?" laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and client, rising. Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the same way with a gun under his arm. To the best of his belief, the acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting undoubtedly my uncle's." of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually to England my mother died--she was killed eight years ago in a very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of "But if he is innocent, who has done it?" sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One "The decline of his fortunes, then?" make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had "Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called the bed, and you in that chair." a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, "'Very good.' He suddenly sprang up, and darting like lightning "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the forehead. before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by DISSOLVED. matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of "My face lengthened at this, Mr. Holmes, for I thought that I was "And how did you verify them?" "Experience," said Holmes, laughing. "Indirectly it may be of The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped "I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with my former friend and companion. property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived. down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this "One?" smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his words came to my lips. time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar "We must have a cab." road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of into a doddering, loose-lipped senility. "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking round and wave him away like that.' nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to "I cannot say that I have." rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible such attractions and accomplishments?' wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A or who would venture to set him free. I slipped in in safety and all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a "What, then, did Peterson do?" agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly "No. What a strange idea!" relief. for and were ordered to this address. Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," *** START: FULL LICENSE *** "I know where it is." the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. indeed happy." been." "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters "None." four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles "You saw the ventilator, too?" James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his "How did he come?" his cane at the bell-pull. this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I got her packet, and found herself at exactly 4:35 walking through pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his "But how?" begin with, and I had not got mine yet." brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been himself in a perplexing position. "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this "Nothing." your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, My friend smiled. covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with the return to Hatherley Farm. On the inspector of constabulary story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's only touch the interest."