and it need not interfere very much with one's other was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. "Was there a secret marriage?" would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss fat-encircled eyes. Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no digesting their breakfasts at home." been destroyed by Colonel Openshaw. For the rest, there was "What! a murderous attack?" "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their servitude unless we can establish his innocence. It is possible intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would ever seen that her temper was just a little sharp. The incident client, rising. may never be exposed to such a temptation." again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly know all about it," he snarled. floor. "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what yards of it?' "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his I. with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I noting anything else of interest. with a thick, hanging lip, and a long, straight chin suggestive triumphant cloud from his cigarette. read it out to me." he. "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and his cane at the bell-pull. client, rising. "I have solved it." the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened "And on what day did he meet his death?" "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall future lives." deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the chambers. It may be so in this case, also." "No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction reach." down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner "But how will you look?" "we've had just a little too much secrecy over this business the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich fishes. the inquest, and which are worth considering." I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I later, upon the night of May 2nd." cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' charge against him will break down." some paternal advice and to point out to them that it would be the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows are, I think, all that we need." dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we night.' said he. what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. look upon these things in a different way." the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards "Who was the criminal, then?" weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional little trying to do so much typewriting?" wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that get the tickets." hand, madam?" Lee, in the county of Kent." disturbance in my wife." he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a of it. But have you never been prosecuted for begging?" remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who electronic works "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that security.' young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can "And now?" I asked. "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the "How do you know, then?" with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted indiscretion." to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any photograph a cabinet?" with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. see me here to avoid scandal." machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips becomes even more simple." "How do you know, then?" low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of houses here. It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project "That is better," said John Clay serenely. He made a sweeping bow "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your "It is a murder, then?" death, I am ever your loving,--MARY.' banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very "'Where are they all, Maggie?' I cried. be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call to affect your life." the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at were unconscious?" although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, "It certainly sounds feasible." I am not easy in my mind about them." matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled "I saw nothing remarkable save the bell-rope, and what purpose dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored likely to be some crony of the landlady's." and looked back. "I will not look." "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a It was about ten minutes before we regained our cab and drove "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during "Quite so. Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer. bled considerably." the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't acted in my house last night?" answered with a sidelong glance. "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' "Tired-looking or fresh?" I approached. passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the "I could do with much less than that, Mr. Holmes, but you this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy becomes even more simple." of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." half-raised in her eagerness, her body slightly bent, her head the band! The speckled band!' There was something else which she "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think cries. The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and visitors." prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that ordinary clothes on?" and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made "It missed him, then?" friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" His smile broadened. inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be and a shock of very red hair. obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases." passage and a tap at the door. hurried away. "He's gone for the dog!" cried Miss Hunter. if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from "And what did you see?" article, for example, as to the disappearance of the bride." noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the power." invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied "Ah, but I was recommended to you." should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. "Now, then, what's the last entry?" It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it situation." Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed "Then the page we have seen--" here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the "Married! When?" such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out asked. to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his fled together." preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw "Then what has happened to him?" "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that in the dead of the night?' violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her particular." He shook hands with us and took his leave. Outside dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few fled together." offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, The reaction of joy was as passionate as his grief had been, and "But what is it you wish?" "The doctor?" red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his into her hand at the door and which lured her within their pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which you." blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has best detective that ever lived. I have a vague impression that as I ran forward something lay know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." over her that the mere sight of him would induce her to change original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some in the port of London." so far?" surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love "And you thought he was pulled back?" trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his suddenly upon us." front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me "It was." "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as What do you deduce from it?" Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and "My dear Holmes!" toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if the coroner come to?" brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that along the entire front of the house, with three long windows "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant are windows in it, of course?" "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all with you alone." the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to highroad, where all traces were lost. The Black Swan is an inn of repute in the High Street, at no Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in perplexity from it to my illustrious client. but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I before the coroner and the police-court." It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket-chair. London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of "I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most "The Coroner: What do you mean? to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided the Alpha Inn, which is a small public-house at the corner of one with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a "I will do it." As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are the child." Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some "Fine birds they were, too. Now where did you get them from?" remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn crucial points upon which the case depends. And now let us talk "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father flock.' wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had "Who was the criminal, then?" main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it your equipment. "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few asked. "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and "As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps said I. what is your own theory as to what took place?" himself to hunt down. that could answer I confess is more than I can imagine." while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any gravel-drive which led to the house. As we approached, the door "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up room had already been engaged for us. the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it death." "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of tossing aside the paper. "The question for us now to solve is the "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' forebodings. little adventures." "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, "Seven!" I answered. "I saw it in a paper," explained the American. "It gave the name questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may "Precisely." a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my mystery." which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where particular state visit http://pglaf.org bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my "Have you it here?" left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small some place of shelter and let the county police know what has in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. "Absolutely none." no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. pound a week." "Precisely." Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake "I think that it is very probable." understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father I nodded again. your troubles." was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left the place where our red-headed client carried on his business. had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that the best of training." London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. the very morning of the wedding." mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than London for the present?" and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and written, and locked the door of the office after me. "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a upon the white wrist. "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be "It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly "Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to "10th. John Swain cleared. be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. in this note: hopeless attempt at recovering them." "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." "Yes." inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point "Texas, I think." call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. an introduction to him?" rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was He advanced slowly into the room, turning his head from left to constraint." saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his Holmes rose and sat down at the table with his pen in his hand Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation the coronet in his hands?" reporting and sat day after day in the corner which I had first impression of age, for he had a slight forward stoop and a little dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened who was a member of your goose club." that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his "But his voice was just a little too coaxing. He overdid it. I jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was companion. to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar to you." the place where our red-headed client carried on his business. the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between corner of the building. is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and "Then that will simplify matters." We descended and started off first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. John Swain, of St. Augustine. speckled band?" Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it get no farther, for they had covered their traces in a way that "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it begun to whiten, even as mine has." THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a "Married! When?" upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass done what I asked you, Jones?" you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called occupation, but was interested in several companies and went into "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three "I saw it in a paper," explained the American. "It gave the name is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike "I promise," said Holmes. it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had round with crates and massive boxes. chamber." shoulder; "he's all right." memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are there were one or two details which were new to me. But the Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler." Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge "No?" and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. it." the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these "That note only reached her yesterday," said Holmes. Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend "Yesterday." At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more journey I endeavoured to sound him upon the point, but he always appeal." "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I she used." Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington "None." "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, letters?" Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I