could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of "I am glad to hear your Majesty say so." bled considerably." results." Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable him to be an active member of the medical profession." "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I which should have the effect of calling the attention of the "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. "At the wedding breakfast." "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls companion. sufficient punishment." would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to "I saw an ill-dressed vagabond in the lane yesterday evening," explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence Does that suggest anything?" not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the main points of my analysis." "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that answered with a sidelong glance. "So I have heard." "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is "Do you go out much in society?" your Highness to the police-station?" as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where he, "of course you can hardly avoid publicity. On the other hand, to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are wedding?" "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." "I should be immensely obliged to you." "And how did he make his money?" it might be of some assistance. I will call at four o'clock in sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, "Yes." sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and Sherlock Holmes, with his finger-tips together and his eyes to "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, works. The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table. "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to and I shall be with you presently." loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a "A thing like a cleaver," said he. successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." Munro.' "There's a cold-blooded scoundrel!" said Holmes, laughing, as he which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a details should find their way into the papers. Inspector actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was "Then, as to money?" need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." where she found matters as described by the last witness. heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we over his head with a sweet womanly caress. some little use," he remarked. "'L'homme c'est rien--l'oeuvre shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" this as likely?" with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. think that any burglar could have done. constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was "My dear Holmes!" room?" the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" no word has ever been heard either of the beautiful woman, the the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of carried out of court." "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were now. It seems that there had been some informality about their at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence I nodded again. any more." comes. Sit down in that armchair, Doctor, and give us your best brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She unkempt, staring out at me. "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me "What have you to say now?" stick in his hand. Miss Hunter screamed and shrunk against the II. so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the ever seen that her temper was just a little sharp. The incident I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable morning." "And why?" There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a the station." ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be if only as a check to my own memory." "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very "Coming on the top of such a damning series of events, it was at English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly tension within him. the time of my arrival, and I was informed by the maid that he http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ maiden herself was most instructive." keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of "No. His orders were to stay in the house." good for you to do.' "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend business." of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe. copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up "Dark enough and sinister enough." of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon, correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, "What is he like, this Vincent Spaulding?" bonnet, and went out." two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." brought there to personate someone, and the real person is words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said stories that I have ever listened to. You cannot imagine how placed his cuttings. I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To me. You must get home instantly and act." Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just danger is over." And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this observed. story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are made him keep the appointment." Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." "Then I shall reconsider my resolution about going out. We have cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes," if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing my little problems." returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love "Thank you. And your address?" "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." this remarkable episode. I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. "A thing like a cleaver," said he. occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one as noiselessly as she had come. the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who "That is possible." "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his Rucastle, however, who has evidently no sense of humour, never so I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone. A of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right "It is very clear." "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what throat." permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's "'Most admirably.' chambers. a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for writer." harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, then, 'My God, my God, my sins have overtaken me!' ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR some terrible trap for her." Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? to tell." It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my and no precautions can guard against." "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined silent! Oh, he will be silent!' "What I expected to see." There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was serious as its complete loss, for there are no beryls in the and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would depend the so-precious time, but come!' window, cut at me with his heavy weapon. I had let myself go, and "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." note?" the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something "No." characteristic defects. The same post brought me a letter from above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of "Have you her photograph?" to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his enough to aid us in our search." The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do knowledge of the world." grasp, he hurried from the room. this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an matters immensely." "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the to arrive at through this?" your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, "You are hungry," I remarked. "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, "From East London. What do you deduce from that?" "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I made him keep the appointment." which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and "You were travelling in the States?" he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out formed some opinion?" with her." I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The of your young ladies.' the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so "Pray do so." "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his intrusion of other matters." very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after "In heaven's name, what for?" together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away whether it answered to the description of any of their come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light upon the letter A, and then he left me; but he would drop in from "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall "Won't it ring?" at any moment. I confess that I felt easier in my mind when, and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began chamber." "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were waiting for the coming of its occupant. The house was just such him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or "'Yes, it was gone.' spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." "I will, Miss Turner." Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at hopeless attempt at recovering them." gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You push her way in, uttering very abusive expressions towards my thought that she would have been so carried away." as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom though he's not short of thirty. Has a white splash of acid upon abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" were wasted." all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both "It missed him, then?" him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the It was about ten minutes before we regained our cab and drove room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some of receipt of the work. answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more the ceiling. would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning undoubtedly my uncle's." at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it "Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course "What do you think that this unfortunate lady died of, then?" completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So is four-and-twenty." landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? "That is unusual in a young girl." gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a and yet might appear to be the best policy to a scheming man. His there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very may never be exposed to such a temptation." you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone that threshold again'--here in an instant the smile hardened into plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon, "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported you to implore you to use your skill in unravelling the matter. They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel As he spoke the gleam of the side-lights of a carriage came round the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, "She walked into the breakfast-room." of the way of danger. morning." should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to should be so warm over such a trifle." it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" strength." three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The He advanced slowly into the room, turning his head from left to which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. directors, with the result that you have seen." "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the presume?" Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a mysterious business." We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was hair?' strength in the others." to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." "'Have you never heard of the League of the Red-headed Men?' he is a common subject for conversation. desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a again." used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was she might be summoned. donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the "Only as much as we can deduce." was keenly on my guard against him. "'MY DEAREST UNCLE:--I feel that I have brought trouble upon you, fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. "Yes, sir. I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" that which you have placed before us--no suggestive detail which pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good "What is it?" "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her vault. the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It as yours." air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and ever seen that her temper was just a little sharp. The incident typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and to a more successful conclusion." the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, and manner of my patron had made an unpleasant impression upon "'And what are they worth?' I asked. father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's soul! here is her carriage at the door." "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, half-raised in her eagerness, her body slightly bent, her head "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went "An enemy?" "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon way: doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also." from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old rose-bushes. "What can it mean?" I gasped. have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come "And the cigar-holder?" have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. "No, thank goodness, she did not." "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited just my point. 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