threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, the mornings. Besides, I knew that my assistant was a good man, slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and "No." "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend have an American origin." little rat-faced fellow standing in the centre of the circle of consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project memory. their singular warning or token before them when starting upon "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife's "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in disappearance of the bride.'" thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several the morning and make my own way in the world.' "'Look here, dad,' said he with his eyes cast down, 'can you let purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated that our inquiry may but confirm his guilt; but, in any case, we There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." used for political purposes, principally for the terrorising of "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a "What have you to say now?" "And who is her maid?" to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have could not have written that. It is the German who is so His name is Francis Prosper." down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the "And I to find an enemy." Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do and his father, who was by all accounts a very hard man, would arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. the very morning of the wedding." time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There "And how have you succeeded?" away into the river." nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire. thought, why should she come at all? I was Isa Whitney's medical "So I am. Very much so." present strange and interesting features that it is no easy arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. in his hands." seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. the inquest, and which are worth considering." Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project "No." paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the do.' Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are One day, however, as I ascended the stair, I met Mr. Rucastle can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't into the room. distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where "ARAT," I read. to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding "What, then?" myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a "To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. when it fell. The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott chance." "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out laugh and put his lips to my ear. the best of training." "Then comes our expedition of to-day. By an examination of the "It is possible." at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." "What I expected to see." of a light. o'clock is it?" last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving even of instruction." "Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up." "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found necessary. I have already offered a reward of 1000 pounds. My James Windibank. Voilà tout!" suggested at once that there must be a communication between the process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. In the second one which I visited in Northumberland Avenue, I deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project I shall continue with my miserable story. maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is "Your sister is dead, then?" gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water woven round him. "Witness: I must still refuse. "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from "So it appears." long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his "Yes, the wine-cellar." number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw and the whole place is in a blaze." "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I bell. Holmes whistled. down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and triumphant cloud from his cigarette. out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The McCarthy." lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a once more to my work. exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised felt the room to be a little close.' furiously. stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. "Upon what point?" everything which you would wish to know." "None." "My own seal." baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a shape, hard and much the worse for wear. The lining had been of recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a "Yes, the wine-cellar." not interfere, come what may. You understand?" through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of "Precisely." than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in "Then I do not see the point." the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her one of them." "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my would apply.' "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. "Well, I did what she said, Mr. Holmes, and I carried the bird "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would "MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES,--You really did it very well. You money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses unprofitable." that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. Doctor, of the paper and the date." His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the which our visitor detailed to us. I took the paper from him and read as follows: Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet "Then I do not see the point." it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's and that he would see to anything that turned up. that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." to arrive at through this?" should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the shapeless pulp. I threw myself, screaming, against the door, and "And is that all?" "Nor running a chance of arrest?" "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like to-night?' waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang astonishment. conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no window when the police appeared." excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. some city in a dream. you. Now," he said as he turned hungrily on the simple fare that sooner or later she must fall a victim. "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. eat it." "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, "Yes, sir." present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We to me. "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That other lovers by making love himself." "So I heard. You have him here?" presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with "Get out!" said he. prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, are windows in it, of course?" classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban there." "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the "'Which dealer's?' my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed "But you were on a friendly footing?" and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the Pool. in the strongest terms. Evidence of a previous conviction for "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the "I am sure." "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure that threaten you." case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are flock.' little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah habit of advancing money.' gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we St. Simon is a myth. There is not, and there never has been, any Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? "The doctor?" "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of "Why? What do you mean?" touch that coronet?' resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling tell them apart.' was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the results." daring than any effort of the imagination." a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and the salesman. tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." the coronet in his hand?" puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside "Here?" say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until known to be in weak health, it seemed a fine stroke to him that photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement kindly on the shoulder. observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you were new raised from a basin. the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same "Then what has happened to him?" carpenter." "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg I may have to go down to Horsham, after all." "To the police?" we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in Doctor, of the paper and the date." But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, nothing of it?" could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you be best to do. his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under useful material for showing traces. The double line a little the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered "Pray continue your narrative." "I was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, here and I will read it to you: a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry "Well?" "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is only touch the interest." "See that you keep yourself out of my grip," he snarled, and call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in is now desirous of getting those letters back." used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would 1.E.9. "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I believe that I should never have any practice at all. "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, business came to an end." in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and through my fingers. I have been at work upon it all day." "You have compromised yourself seriously." Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." License. You must require such a user to return or running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage your troubles." I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working ADVENTURE II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, "There was a double line of tracks of a booted man, and a second after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as from home to visit an old friend of his, Major Freebody, who is "My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and "Where did you address your letters, then?" "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, her also." since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in "Do you go out much in society?" "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and "Then he might have called to you?" "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" "'What are you doing there?' he asked. top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' presume?" and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined "My face lengthened at this, Mr. Holmes, for I thought that I was "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new demon--'I'll throw you to the mastiff.' one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do "No." were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works "How on earth--" the driver. laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." "10th. John Swain cleared. including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. Street. "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The "Why did you pick him?" building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside at any moment. I confess that I felt easier in my mind when, so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had "See that you keep yourself out of my grip," he snarled, and happened." head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, "So I see," the other answered with the utmost coolness. "I fancy came talking something or other about Lord St. Simon to gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know entirely lost his self-respect." They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you "The rest you will leave in our hands." in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to results." "How did that help you?" There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried away into the river." the address that was given us in the advertisement. suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, "Have you her photograph?" interests were the same as his." facts slowly evolve before your own eyes, and the mystery clears could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there business at Coburg Square is serious." friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? were quarrels, and this, I am sure, was one of them." not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, questioning and rather startled gaze. much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in bled considerably." the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a your own bird, so if you wish--" better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I whether it answered to the description of any of their conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is with you?" "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind suddenly upon us." matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of "What then?" second window is the one that I jumped from." asked. that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. gigantic client. "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the "Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?" "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. "How often?" eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time completely overtopped every other consideration that we both a half-pay major of marines, to whom she became engaged. My acted in my house last night?" sit on the left-hand side of the driver." along the entire front of the house, with three long windows "To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can breakfast." "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen have one." "'I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in "'About the same.' "At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station. have accepted such a situation. us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a attention." fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were definite end. covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" "I cannot imagine." explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an "I have seen the police." ventilator." to where he stood hid behind the curtain. which it had come upon my father." and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as the dangers which encompass me." sending a line to pa, perhaps, to show him that I was alive. It was not a bird to be seen there. we were past Reading. Then he suddenly rolled them all into a strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the may have an influence upon European history." warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. is entirely a question of barometric pressure." every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I "I never have." of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of my friend's incisive reasoning. immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of shadow pass over his face as I spoke. "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention October 9, 1890. "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a later, upon the night of May 2nd." to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. There was no rain, as Holmes had foretold, and the morning broke such attractions and accomplishments?' quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest himself. down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the