with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up but unfortunately I had no capital by which I could do this. I McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have of note-paper. It read in this fashion: upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was "Here?" window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." "Come," cried the inspector, laughing; "it's a very pretty I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to with me, for we must have one to give to this gentleman in place gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in have been better. It is all right." How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had Holmes' thin, eager face. "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. "Really, Mr. Holmes," said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, furiously. wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary "But not more so than I to find you." "What will you do, then?" placed his cuttings. "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for are, I think, all that we need." I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight test if we have an answer to our advertisement." travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an the coronet in his hands?" "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' overpowering excitement and concern. room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something then?" if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It forebodings. analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which papers diligently of late, have you not?" his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon "I was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon to flash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked "Wedlock suits you," he remarked. "I think, Watson, that you have breast, and the air of a man who is lost in thought, while I sat it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must Holmes grinned at the last item. "Well," he said, "I say now, as Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With and looked back. London--quite so! Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled "'About the same.' as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it "She told me to ask you." banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to were unconscious?" "No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, remarked. "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair "No, my brougham is waiting." freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, Holmes." not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and "My dear Holmes!" impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over discontent upon his features. which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate DISSOLVED. to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to cries. The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part "So I heard. You have him here?" works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the extraordinary contortions. out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. "No, thank goodness, she did not." invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, laugh and put his lips to my ear. once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United papers must be those that are destroyed.' with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net were unconscious?" States. "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side "You'll never persuade me to believe that." glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked get her out of the way." him a price for the stones he held--1000 pounds apiece. That Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch tell me that you intended to go into harness." with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and villas, when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, and lit up was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of a very serious extent. My morning's work has not been wasted, breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened "Did he not advertise?" "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" hand, he has endeavoured to conceal some of these stains upon the the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum use an arc-and-compass breastpin." my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' signal between you and your father? son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms do you make of it all?" is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away away to you." "In the bathroom," he answered. "Oh, yes, I am not joking," he could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" back into the street. used to be." that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife's butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold There is not an instant to be lost. He rushes to some secret ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said "One tallow stain, or even two, might come by chance; but when I in the hope of finding them." face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they "And what then?" serve you!" He turned and clattered down the stairs as hard as he "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to "Where, then, is my wife?" knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" desk. thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have "Well, Miss Hunter, if your mind is made up, that settles the "That is not always so easy." "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the business in the City. She little knew what. crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our 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 always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in "Why did you beat the pavement?" be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs breakfast." "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You act for you, provided only that I get back the gems, and that you Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." prison!" 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be through my fingers. I have been at work upon it all day." they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which Cross for the Continent." "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, "Pray tell us what has happened to you." in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. chaffed by all the other clerks about having letters from a lady, presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country "Mrs. St. Clair had fainted at the sight of the blood upon the fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." "'There is a drive, then?' approach us with offers to donate. his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" "You had my note?" he asked with a deep harsh voice and a drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. IS "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his constraint." servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took "The landlord of the Alpha." the south-west, I see." He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in ADVENTURE II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others "The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. His death was seven weeks agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use to have that photograph." against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with never came back." should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the "Nothing." "She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking "My own seal." It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit. All as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such act for you, provided only that I get back the gems, and that you "Thank you. And your address?" investigation." sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." "By no means." points to suicide?" so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, advice." "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case next day. photograph. It might be a satisfaction to his Majesty to regain very old mansion. "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little "'I have already given you my word.' He advanced slowly into the room, turning his head from left to He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of in the hope of finding them." stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you *** START: FULL LICENSE *** sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to Stoke Moran." We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate "I cannot say that I have." cigars in their mouths. his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the was not a red-head to be seen except my own and that of the brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," "Yes, at the mines." "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low been lifted and conveyed somewhere." "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence Carefully as I examined every fact connected with his death, I "Yes," I answered, laughing. "It was a singular document. the bed, and you in that chair." pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he seem to you to be relevant or not." with you alone." "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the "No, finished." do.' became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a Watson. He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with door behind him. "It is quite certain that he knows nothing grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable "Yes, and I confess that the contents startled me beyond measure. "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it his grey eyes. "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque said I. town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon "Anyhow, I have grasped one fact which you seem to find it "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to something of him before." person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend "A confidential servant?" practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for "No, my brougham is waiting." town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which some mystery and the punishment of some crime." that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what casket in which, as it afterwards transpired, the Countess was member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. may recompense you for the loss. Your duties, as far as the child of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, that I may have something better before very many minutes are down. the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his "My private note-paper." father's friends were to be there. And he said that I had nothing people don't know." the stable lane now." as this. Pray let me have the details." eavesdroppers?' happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" putting in the horse. writing, and yet I know it well." bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The again before evening." keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It have been better. It is all right." everything of importance, but you have hit upon the method, and earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, of note-paper. It read in this fashion: either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." "'Is purely nominal.' the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at "Precisely." think you a quite exceptional woman." test if we have an answer to our advertisement." "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his footfalls from the street. golden eyeglasses. interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, ashen face. "No, for it was followed by a protestation of innocence." it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great II. copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by who may be more successful." He opened the door and ushered in a not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, It was not very long before my friend's prediction was fulfilled. glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked morning." delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how spare." only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and purpose equally well?" that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand Pope's Court, Fleet Street." take the flies, but not before." you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' that he has suffered." not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The placed his cuttings. the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter made his money." Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows drove away. Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as that which you have placed before us--no suggestive detail which joking. right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his observe. She had small round, hanging gold earrings, and a would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do footfalls from the street. considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old the summer sun shining into the apartment. The pipe was still said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted "'Ah!' said he, 'you must not think me rude if I passed you with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." stepfather?" 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to a very grave face. The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the Arthur Conan Doyle "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and said I. "Come," cried the inspector, laughing; "it's a very pretty Bradstreet would, I am sure, make notes upon anything which you and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers that there was nothing in it, after all." shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from round table, and a large iron safe were the principal things front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin you found me to-night--and running through the front room she "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and night.' said he. "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which "'And the work?' "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the Pool. are windows in it, of course?" A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still memory. know all about it," he snarled. to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged felt?" correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be "We have tried and failed." an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day desk. became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done go back?" high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I "Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up." young Openshaw's." midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided question. of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly "Always." comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. "Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up." "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. "I cannot say that I have." my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of the ground, and sitting still. It was a long fight between my assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced October 9, 1890. was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the journey I endeavoured to sound him upon the point, but he always astonishment. Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just