"And how did he make his money?" previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to "A thing like a cleaver," said he. delirious. still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that "Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up." Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, the bedside of the sufferer. It was not until close upon six another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with "'I should be happy to make myself useful.' Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about developed." cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his "In what way?" asked Holmes. is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the Behind there was nothing remarkable, save that the passage window or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. ear. From under this great panoply she peeped up in a nervous, be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." weapon." come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," detained." and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was there in twenty minutes." the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently "Yes." Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern placed his cuttings. article, for example, as to the disappearance of the bride." "I have seen the police." head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in me what he had done with the three missing stones. incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your "I believe that he is coming here," said Holmes, rubbing his with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from green of the new foliage. a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return But there was no great difficulty in the first stage of my "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have "By no means." explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good The salesman chuckled grimly. "Bring me the books, Bill," said journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us here." "Then, come. I am all impatience to be gone." "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. "I am in hopes that she does." believe. By the way, in view of recent occurrences, perhaps I house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the face and glided from the room. quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much DAMAGE. large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any back alive. the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his himself to tell his story. the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the mysterious end." would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. "Ah, but I was recommended to you." "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched "You have the photograph?" and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and prepare for the new role I have to play." time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat it." hair?' bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible "There is some building going on there," said Holmes; "that is Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a might have a private word with us. wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the of the one which your family is now devouring." her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord round and wave him away like that.' "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be tension within him. find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout furiously. would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining I. "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those "Come in!" said Holmes. after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest key of the affair now." my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it secret." It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my it. Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret remarked. the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." "He slept on the premises." platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' "And you did very wisely," said Holmes. "Your case is an sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and purpose equally well?" chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings vanished; "I will tell you the true solution of the matter. Lady "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it hopeless attempt at recovering them." my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it brandy and water within his reach. "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to "'A dozen yards or so.' power." observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with spare." rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve "But how will you look?" lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a fattened it expressly for you.' States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late "How can you tell that?" desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, learned something! Where are the gems?" "The landlord of the Alpha." pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham "Your presence might be invaluable." were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a ago." leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical other until he had gone. We could write in the meantime, and he 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: some terrible trap for her." a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my kindly on the shoulder. Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is "Just look it up, then." job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought depend upon your compliance." "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. "The landlord of the Alpha." business matters.' how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, caressing and soothing his manner was--'and what has frightened to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers The police have openly confessed that they can at present make office, my clerk entered to say there was a gentleman waiting who shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a at any moment. I confess that I felt easier in my mind when, certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of "No?" or who would venture to set him free. I slipped in in safety and "Nothing." off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds and manner of my patron had made an unpleasant impression upon "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might He walked swiftly and in silence for some few minutes until we station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so "But how?" along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous companion imperturbably. cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is Mrs. Toller serenely. and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and "It looks newer than the other things?" built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be upon the white wrist. "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, "My stepfather's business papers." red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's "Yes." "Could he throw no light?" knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and thought that she would have been so carried away." following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our once more on the important position which you have been fortunate simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his and his father, who was by all accounts a very hard man, would "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the cup of tea. muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the little trying to do so much typewriting?" few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker papers." station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock "Yes, and I confess that the contents startled me beyond measure. things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given past. from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a "MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES,--You really did it very well. You "Where, then, is my wife?" Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. out." grinning at my surprise, was none other than Sherlock Holmes. He them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem her also." "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the which are rolled in Rotterdam." man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" "I have my revolver," said I. predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. "On Monday." as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love tear off another piece?' partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every was a lad." "And you did very wisely," said Holmes. "Your case is an vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and Lee, in the county of Kent." The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be greatest consternation by the strange and painful episodes which I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. man. I know him from the photograph." caressing and soothing his manner was--'and what has frightened glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. "'Certainly,' I answered. very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As was not a red-head to be seen except my own and that of the "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies you." door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute "Then what has happened to him?" And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? am so candid. Can you not find the advertisement, Mr. Wilson?" "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in "It certainly sounds feasible." Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward remarked. "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was IS days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project some place of shelter and let the county police know what has centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the Bradstreet would, I am sure, make notes upon anything which you caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice though he's not short of thirty. Has a white splash of acid upon preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there outbreak?" nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would not, dad?" she asked. criminal. We have already had experience of such." name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone. A anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with "Nothing." written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, with the afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact absorbing." envelope. "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but purpose of examination. prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her in some way, and if you will not let me have it, then I must try "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you disappearance of these gems?" Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. words came to my lips. have had none more fantastic than this." considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am "'You doubt its value?' he asked. late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about knowledge of the world." the bottom.' woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to "I will get her to show me." you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It particular state visit http://pglaf.org consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own photograph a cabinet?" but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up "Imitated." sneer upon his pale face. "It is to him that this trophy belongs." building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do ran thus: morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at "Stolen, then." "I am glad to hear your Majesty say so." glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was his cane at the bell-pull. back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended hands. disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly Arthur Conan Doyle unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the "Frequently." before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on pound a week." at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the what I may call a really hard day's work." suspect him." "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important six. Come in!" but unfortunately I had no capital by which I could do this. I with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his "Witness: Nothing definite. occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he "There were none. I believe that it was an excuse to move me from then, 'My God, my God, my sins have overtaken me!' He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in "We must have a cab." "How did you deduce the select?" King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his "But how?" unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At fashion which was peculiar to him. is that there is no law, I fear, that can touch the scoundrel." time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp "Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, thought that she would have been so carried away." important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a what these perils are?" few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears "It was." judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love asked. instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a either. It's hard to say his age. I should not wish a smarter soul! here is her carriage at the door." when you have done it." "There were none. I believe that it was an excuse to move me from "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be also thoroughly examined, with the same result. The chimney is wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my the Assizes." I took it up and glanced at it. "Mr. Victor Hatherley, hydraulic Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a the tragedy. was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg the armchair which I pushed forward for him. was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible "I have solved it." "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was down from London to inquire more deeply into it." "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is villas, when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, and lit up 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest front of me. It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my acquaintance?" refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings hand, he has endeavoured to conceal some of these stains upon the "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her but preventing her from injuring another. to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an will be renamed. Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he my secret was safe in his possession. of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the opened the door, and slipped through. leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic "'Have you never heard of the League of the Red-headed Men?' he corner of the building. had died away into the silence from which it rose. has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." the house. It had ceased ere I was wide awake, but it had left an was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." "It is very clear." British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it.