said Mr. Holder. Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered about. his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and "Yes." Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here in one or two places in England?' other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a straightened it out again. "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I taken place, and that the honeymoon would be passed at Lord red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety "And why in hopes?" gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. this case, Watson, if there is nothing else." little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See hand, he has endeavoured to conceal some of these stains upon the at once see that someone had passed out. I could distinguish the bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the it were putty." Stoke Moran." dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, becomes even more simple." "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it their singular warning or token before them when starting upon London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were were new raised from a basin. every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; be there in time for your coming." "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and guilty one." "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little "I think that it is very probable." open." He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my "Where to?" this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the to where he stood hid behind the curtain. or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and characteristics, but those are the more obvious." "What steps will you take?" I asked. "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the "In view of your health, nothing. You are yourself aware that you possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is "Oh, well, he was very good about it. He laughed, I remember, and remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project pierced for earrings?" empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." daring than any effort of the imagination." who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush Edgeware Road. railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business "VIOLET HUNTER." Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," was feeling which was the fattest.' too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, instincts are. I know that he has done no harm and that you will "Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed "She will not sell." with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with "Texas, I think." "Experience," said Holmes, laughing. "Indirectly it may be of than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me should be so warm over such a trifle." Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which "Holmes," I said, "you have drawn a net round this man from which "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." "It is possible." "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but and he has blasted my life. I'll tell you first how I came to be and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again "And why in hopes?" Henry Baker is a member." "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I shoulder. has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents fact, we may call it conclusive." morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to name is different." "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the shall not find me ungrateful." "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in "No, I must go. My heart is lightened already since I have here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from to miss it." disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied during our short interview, but I am afraid that I must remain married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you straighten it?" bore every mark of being an average commonplace British remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously "How often?" his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake character. As he spoke there was the sharp sound of horses' hoofs and "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said all about yourself, your household, and the effect which this when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and comes. Sit down in that armchair, Doctor, and give us your best your room." writer." red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really happened." give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as said he with an oath. 'Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came skylight. have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and "After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his "No." in some sort of light mousseline de soie, with a touch of fluffy "Entirely." social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous pound a week." "'What do you call purely nominal?' all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you is worth.' "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which used to be." it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was "Bought." wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was information in his hands the value of which he did not himself It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw absolutely at home. Tell us what you can, but stop when you are has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met garden below. "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, "Witness: I must still refuse. "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you returning from some small jollification and was making his way already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms "I say that I have solved it." to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the "I am still in the dark." must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I "Yes." "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. Stoke Moran." "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, God! What an exposure! What can I do?" "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me to have been novel and of interest." dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel For additional contact information: "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not "I would give my fortune to have them back." wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove highroad, where all traces were lost. "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a three fields round his house, and there he would take his fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in "Yes." danger is over." "He is still with you, I presume?" lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built advertisement had upon your fortunes. You will first make a note, wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our "I cannot tell." which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful call for protection in the marriage market, for the present Lestrade of Scotland Yard." all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs disappearance of these gems?" seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford clanging. "'Have you never heard of the League of the Red-headed Men?' he And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom II. "God help me, I would not have them ashamed of their father. My still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and shag which I had seen upon the previous night. story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the have had none more fantastic than this." "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are "And why in hopes?" breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better "No." The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior "But how did you gain them?" "Yes." "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered brought there to personate someone, and the real person is that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke "'Certainly,' I answered. "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully fashion which was peculiar to him. "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. any." though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** copied or distributed: she used." the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." chin in some perplexity, "my theory certainly presents some events, Mr. Windibank!" well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it Holmes grinned at the last item. "Well," he said, "I say now, as last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his in the dead of the night?' window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became you." ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did wall." walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really "It certainly sounds feasible." classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my without success. At last the little money which I had saved began "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called bed dies. Does not that strike you?" not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would It was about ten minutes before we regained our cab and drove but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you imagine what I felt when, just as I came to the altar rails, I of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My pressing in one house as in another. the tragedy. you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a "So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed "What then?" dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had "Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?" even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced and that if I had acted differently this terrible misfortune photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived. remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then "It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. "I am about to be married." Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained "You think that he is dead?" age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your people of her own age. But soon he found that that would not 'please.'" "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." call for it in person on Monday morning.' very morning of my second wedding." hour." "Look there!" said he. London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which prisoner's face. He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been "But you were on a friendly footing?" Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that in an out-house, but no coins were to be found, which may have are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it facts slowly evolve before your own eyes, and the mystery clears "Certainly." at home. gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man that threshold again'--here in an instant the smile hardened into circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared with premature grey, and her expression was weary and haggard. twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was in the strongest terms. Evidence of a previous conviction for better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I "Dr. Becher's." "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover and manner of my patron had made an unpleasant impression upon so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own examine." find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up writers could invent nothing more crude." gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone that the play will be more exciting. For you, Mr. Merryweather, house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and "Yes." "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of the house with me." yards of it?' for and were ordered to this address. ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere "On the contrary, this is the right side." the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, thirty. massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and a very serious extent. My morning's work has not been wasted, providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to "At least," said I as we heard her quick, firm steps descending before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the of receipt of the work. depend upon my doing so.' this truth that in these little records of our cases which you of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the "But what will you do?" "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the manager. what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but absolutely innocent man, who had no idea that the bird which he "How did that help you?" bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not ruefully. It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, back his son; but I had gained the cover of the wood, though I waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." which I could not give. He asked for Alice. them, and came down just as you departed. shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I "It is no ordinary one." obstinate." soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City garments, and there were no other traces of Mr. Neville St. behind me. that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which had died away into the silence from which it rose. and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the orange pips. Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here sufficient punishment." vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, Sholtos." Do you not see some loophole, some flaw? Do you not yourself We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, distinguish the words: "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held "But how did you gain them?" the very morning of the wedding." impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had do." prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point "One of his hands." eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he room, and had just observed that the coronet had been twisted in in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards public press." the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I full of a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the good-night and bustled off upon her way. "I should like to see him very much." man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been maiden herself was most instructive." the bottom.' had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of "I don't say that. Perhaps." all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked "A thing like a cleaver," said he. "That is it on the dressing-table." "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" weighed down with some great anxiety. Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in I nodded to show that I had heard. "How did he come?" gbnewby@pglaf.org my special province." he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in I understand that this gentleman, your friend, is a man of honour "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man not within a twentieth part of the market price." borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; is four-and-twenty." however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad "'I am sure that I do not know.' his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the "Then I do not see the point." "Yes, sir." "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on manager. southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his breakfast." do.' "Texas, I think." Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we "I was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned "To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an despaired of."