so far?" is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say Holmes grinned at the last item. "Well," he said, "I say now, as that he will be back before evening." law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be o'clock is it?" as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." "Yes, sir; for he had started to England just before it arrived." It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was way: present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had "No sign of it?" of it, and it has lost a little of its force. Perhaps you will His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss ways of our fellow-men." this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands "Witness: Nothing definite. address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the him. adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot man. I know him from the photograph." his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not We made our way downstairs as quietly as possible, and out into "I think that it is very probable." "No, but the enclosure is." greatest consternation by the strange and painful episodes which "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there was a perfect sample of the class. knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. make me his representative both with the servants and with the of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows "Frequently." shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed the side-table." sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and "When did she vanish, then?" manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments looking up at the numbers of the houses." enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where ways including including checks, online payments and credit card horse could go." friend's singular character. weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey "'Don't be frightened,' said my employer, laughing at the start am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a "How many? I don't know." had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your first, and we can have some lunch on the way. I observe that possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people he bowed and left the room without another word. for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you business." thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some place no limit on the sum I may draw." his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his Do you not see some loophole, some flaw? Do you not yourself son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made to-morrow." residence of the great financier. presented which may be striking and bizarre without being case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the "And now?" He raised his hand. obstinate." here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a "So I am. Very much so." and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds their mission. You see how quickly the deed followed the sign mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." despaired of." you." showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this one or two very singular points about this room. For example, Mrs. Toller serenely. Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, "It is half-past ten now." in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need "But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should "By no means." then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your we went to search for him, face downward in a little rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do likely to be some crony of the landlady's." possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I will be renamed. red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, "I cannot think." "To an English lawyer named Norton." "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the I approached. observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the when you have done it." can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no morning." its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As coronet," cried Mr. Holder. "Oh, my God! what a blind fool I have shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for orange pips. "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" most interesting one." would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and considering the formidable letters which were received by himself building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of rooms." "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the "By no means." your sleep?' questioning and rather startled gaze. once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I troubles have been weighing upon his mind. Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which whether it answered to the description of any of their fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much his eyes and forehead. another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to "I cannot imagine." Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to the morning and make my own way in the world.' heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. "Was she in good spirits?" in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was spark where all is dark to me." 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and business in the City. She little knew what. something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter 1.E.9. Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our first, and we can have some lunch on the way. I observe that Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon electronic works "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my "And how in the world did you find them?" there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I herself in evening dress, the letter was superscribed to my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated "I know where it is." given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would in a friendly supper." with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." depend upon my doing so.' "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by ADVENTURE II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found seem to you to be relevant or not." thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge asked. "And you did very wisely," said Holmes. "Your case is an adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no "I have seen the police." "By all means." from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature may never be exposed to such a temptation." face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the "Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring." grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." young Openshaw's." by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an the very morning of the wedding." too. heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for "So I am. Very much so." the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." "She told me to ask you." down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." fact, we may call it conclusive." quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the said, beautifully situated, but it is not beautiful in itself, Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that "I cannot tell." system of imprisonment?" Chief Executive and Director "'Then the matter stands thus. You are probably aware that yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. strength of mind to control. no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have "None. Neville wrote those words." round the room. All was as we had seen it in the daytime. Then editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. everything which you would wish to know." and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels." my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the "It is fortunate, for you will perhaps be able to post me up. I 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the companion. do in these deserted rooms, and I once saw him carrying a large the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is said he at last. points in connection with it which never have been, and probably inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that guilty parties." that you can jump it.' that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my "I should be ungrateful if I were not, seeing what I gained used to be." gives a meaning to it." The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon "No." Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns "But I am all in the dark." in him." along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, "To ruin me." In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, hopeless attempt at recovering them." hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some "Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?" ran free in a mining camp and wandered through woods or again before evening." have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual perpetrators. For some years the organisation flourished in spite matter over." of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." records." of them has the shutters up.' call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. agent, while the other was a long, thin, sad-faced man, with a With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction "This is the girl's stepfather, Mr. James Windibank," said was shining brightly. upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord better in every way that they should make their position a little had picked up in the wood. time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by "'Ah!' said he, 'you must not think me rude if I passed you to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised "Why, it's a dummy," said he. more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." "But what is it you wish?" pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way the matter?" Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found cigars in the box." Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time "What do you mean?" is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to and all of them with the keenest interest. which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at speckled band?" "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a with you alone." he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I the word 'band,' which was used by the poor girl, no doubt, to me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has that he must get rid of the tell-tale garments. He would seize there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" again, where I was soon asleep. must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you I have a vague impression that as I ran forward something lay remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a said he at last. "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his shoulder; "he's all right." was feeling which was the fattest.' great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and "Thank you. And your address?" the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at all-comprehensive glances. of this gang." Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the "Was she in good spirits?" natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was the night.' With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I round the room. All was as we had seen it in the daytime. Then Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his "'It is locked up,' I answered. or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true "One tallow stain, or even two, might come by chance; but when I called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. "Quite so. She has her freedom." away to you." obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. "I saw her in conversation with her maid." might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." strange features which were associated with the two crimes which very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, "Is he quiet?" possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to joking. my little problems." stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that "'Not at all. I only doubt--' which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the once more on the important position which you have been fortunate "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, instincts are. I know that he has done no harm and that you will may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. is," said he presently: her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic for over twenty years proof against the little god's arrows, has "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they "I think it very unlikely." the other that she had repented of it within a few minutes of the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what round, and I could see in the gas-light that every vestige of squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the such attractions and accomplishments?' "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will "What, then?" the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." Our visitor glanced with some apparent surprise at the languid, too. chaffed by all the other clerks about having letters from a lady, I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for "Who was the criminal, then?" Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest annoyance, but no jest. fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your greatest consternation by the strange and painful episodes which Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of the devil!" lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to himself. a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man "You forget that I know nothing about it." note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in cheerful." "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm begin with, and I had not got mine yet." man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say which surrounds me? At present it is out of my power to reward a little more before I quite committed myself. him to be an active member of the medical profession." Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There him and tried to hold him back. "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, "I am armed." "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at "To the police?" in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after instincts rose up against that laugh. is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged snow. That is why I was so out of breath, for I am a man who peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News,