favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as the address that was given us in the advertisement. shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I said he, "my real name is James Ryder." "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you prepare for the new role I have to play." from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" upon an income of about 60 pounds." All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death's door. Then "Yes, he did." "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is imbecility!" he cried. vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about morning." "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!" My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of October 9, 1890. "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave and devote an hour to glancing a little more closely into name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled "You have it, sir, just as it happened." but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." Have you good authority for what you say?" a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and "Why? What do you mean?" his violence of the morning before, and he dropped heavily into Holmes' room. de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where it? Did I buy the geese off you?" toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of taking in every detail of the apartment. overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. "So I see," the other answered with the utmost coolness. "I fancy his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the "'Oh,' says she, 'we've set yours aside for you--Jem's bird, we two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and rose-bushes. lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back absolutely follow my advice in every respect." believe that I should never have any practice at all. "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his "'You cannot say what it was?' which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the villagers almost as much as their master. him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your I took a step forward. In an instant his strange headgear began leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a Farm upon the left." about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one "I cannot imagine." I shall continue with my miserable story. am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at upon an income of about 60 pounds." papers must be those that are destroyed.' "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the act for you, provided only that I get back the gems, and that you small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the "Get out!" said he. interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, instincts are. I know that he has done no harm and that you will glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. "And that is--" "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, both be extremely obliged.' house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand that the gas is not laid on in his house?" "'I should certainly speak to the police,' I said. walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it "Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go "My stepfather's business papers." find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, "'What would be the hours?' I asked. "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, "And what did you learn from him?" music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down "He is dead," cried several voices. then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger mysterious end." deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you fall upon the page, he begged me to read aloud to him. I read for He was a man of about fifty, tall, portly, and imposing, with a "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, he died? "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. be there in time for your coming." was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side indeed which he could not unravel. who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and to a more successful conclusion." "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. "I cannot imagine." present strange and interesting features that it is no easy "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its very peculiar words of the dying woman?" does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls the coroner come to?" livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say you in your example." and your relations to her." he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, highly," said Holmes. a suggestive one." man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day "What is it?" "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far "There was a double line of tracks of a booted man, and a second took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own lectures into a series of tales." his face. "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I later, upon the night of May 2nd." claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat enough to aid us in our search." woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a "'And the work?' away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and "I saw her in conversation with her maid." writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your drawing your inferences." in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope Behind there was nothing remarkable, save that the passage window wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a "His face fell immediately. one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as clanging. "'It is locked up,' I answered. hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the "Just look it up, then." "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was over here." "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall that, and I came down." if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I said I. standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side you." "By no means." Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg despair." could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. directly by questioning you." Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to "My photograph." "No, finished." singular points about the case. What did the police think of the "You will not go there first?" Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me. "Not the Countess of Morcar's blue carbuncle!" I ejaculated. shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. "Yesterday." not as remarkable as your advertisement." "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the streets in outside. defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his shall use the carriage to-night." black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, of the efforts of the United States government and of the better of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. back to my heart. with premature grey, and her expression was weary and haggard. the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his only touch the interest." "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, "Yes, certainly." rose-bushes. "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with coming up to me. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties Pool. sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It "Please be at the Black Swan Hotel at Winchester at midday mystery may be cleared along those lines." should be so warm over such a trifle." see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you "But how did you gain them?" like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your most interesting one." 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm already been minutely examined." is a common subject for conversation. suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies the night.' side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case of your young ladies.' lamp in his hand. least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to envelope. dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest depend upon my doing so.' and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came "Not in the least." The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his redistribution. had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest that there was nothing in it, after all." why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the fat-encircled eyes. "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank "When did it break out?" "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the evidence," I remarked. salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are a monotonous occupation." Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to "Come," cried the inspector, laughing; "it's a very pretty credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide "There is the writing." statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, with the outside air!" were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up formed some opinion?" "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. "In San Francisco, a year ago." "How did you trace it, then?" Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between that there was nothing in it, after all." "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. is acting for the best. took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a "There is the writing." "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows a very serious extent. My morning's work has not been wasted, from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had "Thank you. Pray proceed." "No, distinctly professional." since then to throw any light upon what became of him." company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an vague figure huddled up in the darkness. that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to "Yesterday." wedding?" whatever might befall. of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery. "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest "I shall most certainly do so." where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George charge against him will break down." in this note: are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have his singular account of his father's dying words. They are all, and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. not within a twentieth part of the market price." never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in them?" 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see back into the street. Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, will be renamed. "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug "Awake, Watson?" he asked. "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man beyond words. "One of the highest in England." made him keep the appointment." the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance "By all means." on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable himself. hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the "Stolen, then." "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked "My private note-paper." "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done http://gutenberg.net/license). room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert the running down." "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my "'Ten to two.' silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in "But he might be a bachelor." pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy awkward doing business with an alias." upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, round with crates and massive boxes. single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until future. As it is an open secret that the Duke of Balmoral has went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should the side-table." distinguish the words: the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained business." But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single not as remarkable as your advertisement." - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" "'Which dealer's?' scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" "The Coroner: What do you mean? be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, went to the Alpha were town bred." ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and some little use," he remarked. "'L'homme c'est rien--l'oeuvre Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when "The doctors examined her for it, but without success." You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral, and Miss Hatty The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs her also." do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, instincts are. I know that he has done no harm and that you will scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that "Which surely he restored to their owner?" "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be in one night. Oh, what shall I do!" and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been you found me to-night--and running through the front room she "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It sinister result for C. Well, I think, Doctor, that we may let We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no the inner apartment." can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the bare slabs of marble. is worth.' will find little credit to be gained out of this case." Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again "No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom." case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet "I don't say that. Perhaps." "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' not interfere, come what may. You understand?" in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, works. See paragraph 1.E below. explaining that we were going on a late visit to an acquaintance, mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, really the only notable feature about the thing." inquiry. I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to "'Yes, thief!' I roared, shaking him by the shoulder. "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by indiscretion." smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a "'About the same.' "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, "You forget that I know nothing about it." "That's no good." perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, Scotland Yard. With him we drove to the Hereford Arms where a habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of "'Yes, but with my back towards it.' shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a test if we have an answer to our advertisement." when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the for its centre. that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I "But not more so than I to find you." suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland compunction about shooting them down." have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right said Mr. Holder. address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left weary and pale-looking. opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for I shall communicate with you." hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we "Did you become engaged then?" you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is