license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs make me his representative both with the servants and with the Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon DAMAGE. "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets and the church but not where the lady lived." read over the extraordinary announcement. "MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES,--You really did it very well. You back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a "Yes, I have one waiting." the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes residence of the great financier. at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. train from Paddington which would bring you there at about in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the "Yes." It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business place--within ten miles of Reading. I was fortunate enough to Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of weighted coat had remained when the stripped body had been sucked thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and them present such singular features as the strange train of "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her "One?" "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from made his money." was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down you want, then?' among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is As he spoke there was the sharp sound of horses' hoofs and He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of "What are they?" that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect "It is a murder, then?" and, for all that it was a cold night, the sweat was pouring down outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an Bradstreet would, I am sure, make notes upon anything which you somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, depend upon your compliance." Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, impression of age, for he had a slight forward stoop and a little his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too what I may call a really hard day's work." few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly yet." twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! "What shall I do?" Chief Executive and Director Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, away in different directions, and I went off to make my own "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers his huge brown hands. my mind is made up that I will accept it. I thought, however, astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. then?" "You'll never persuade me to believe that." round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So which had been intrusted to me. On the one hand, of course, I was better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I for the market.' way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. discontent upon his features. formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He "Where, indeed?" ordinary clothes on?" rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts "But if he is innocent, who has done it?" manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue and no precautions can guard against." "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to touch that coronet?' With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when sneer upon his pale face. glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan that?' also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. obstinate." the date of his supposed suicide." explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to before, for it was considerably after midnight. fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my "'Quite sure, dad.' practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up "'Never.' "Then he might have called to you?" second." her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. "'On the contrary,' said I, 'I opened the door myself because I usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table. though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." "You heard nothing yourself last night?" the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at charge against him will break down." "We must have a cab." Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and the nursery. Behind there was nothing remarkable, save that the passage window in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the and I shall be with you presently." ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we "Were there gipsies in the plantation at the time?" thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an way in." him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was the stones. "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in own family. hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my public press." the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. shadow pass over his face as I spoke. face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good success. King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I all that?" "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. "Farewell, then," said the old man solemnly. "Your own deathbeds, immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place father's place of business?" visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his over here." "In your heart of hearts, do you think that Neville is alive?" "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring to-morrow." "Quite so. She has her freedom." Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made such attractions and accomplishments?' on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for carriage. It was a chestnut." comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit. All Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended "'Which dealer's?' With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave skylight. grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the I took the paper from him and read as follows: more cunning than himself upon his track. You must lock yourself dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with "Then I shall reconsider my resolution about going out. We have any." case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet it means?" was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. forecastle of an emigrant ship. "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner "It was." better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town flock.' "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should "Upon what point?" in one or two places in England?' charge against him will break down." "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you constraint." "Stolen, then." reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the "Come in!" said Holmes. money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of friend's singular character. "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew ADVENTURE II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE "There is the writing." home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" "The King of Scandinavia." glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you nothing with him." room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, danger is over." twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten "Then I do not see the point." I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." of which were open. They each led into an empty room, dusty and thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was 'please.'" I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There "Pray continue your narrative." "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake age. One sorrow comes close upon the heels of another. My niece, "Could he throw no light?" can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." at home. a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with "Mrs. St. Clair had fainted at the sight of the blood upon the strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of "Pray do so." he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the observe. She had small round, hanging gold earrings, and a "And how in the world did you find them?" loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of that the individual must be brought into frequent contact with "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as them?" will take you up to see the machine.' of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a "9th. McCauley cleared. The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing "When did she vanish, then?" "And on what day did he meet his death?" III. the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I Yours faithfully, JEPHRO RUCASTLE.' his grey eyes. explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the of this gang." and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in man's hat, on which he raised his stick to defend himself and, lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But "This photograph!" Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a "'Never.' state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us bed dies. Does not that strike you?" already been minutely examined." LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 foot. Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?" remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, door?" overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the "Lady St. Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less He picked out from his bundle a copy of the local Herefordshire "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of security.' friend's singular character. with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain of a book, octavo size, no water-mark. Hum! Posted to-day in a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen and shall probably return to London by the evening train." against a man in the prime of life?" to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal." town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. knowledge of the world." corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a cheerful." "It was." she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her "'Entirely.' used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' perform one more feat? I should not ask it of you if I did not my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar have accepted such a situation. all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news "'December 22nd. Twenty-four geese at 7s. 6d.'" "At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station. and your relations to her." "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to Sutherland?" "But you would not advise me to refuse?" views." left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that The summons was a brief and urgent one. problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their any assistance, either to you or to my friend here, I shall be unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw third from London." glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a meant." likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, clang of the bell. even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and and effective." ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to everything which you would wish to know." and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I geese which you supplied to the Alpha." ill-usage at the hands of fortune. bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you least a most suspicious remark." "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" mind, ever again be happy under your roof, and I feel that I must "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. "What CAN be the matter, then? Can you suggest no explanation?" Bradstreet would, I am sure, make notes upon anything which you was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down The telegram which we eventually received came late one night London for the present?" Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my "What then?" dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, "I have come for advice." had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the then?" say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to the summer sun shining into the apartment. The pipe was still "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a "So it appears." however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they "No?" be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, business in the City. She little knew what. of receipt of the work. "Then he might have called to you?" objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and "And I say east," said my patient. "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and and glanced through. there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is "You are all wrong." My friend smiled. chaffed by all the other clerks about having letters from a lady, The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in be there in time for your coming." that he has suffered." Lee, in the county of Kent." Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, John Swain, of St. Augustine. in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, troubles have been weighing upon his mind. II. "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." hopeless attempt at recovering them." advertisement had upon your fortunes. You will first make a note, Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders "No, I am descending." 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous "What are they?" and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes," days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent "Then the page we have seen--" "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw started for the Temple to see my husband. business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small she used." and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? dark, lack-lustre eye turned upon the newcomer. Out of the black Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support.