"Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My Miss Holder?" "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he union?" "Yes, only one." to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said nights." "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the occurred." overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his "About sixty; but his constitution has been shattered by his life to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the the iron safe, which he closed upon it. rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite in this way: "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door presence could be of no help to them in their investigations. "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of "None." developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' quite distinctive." better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite outsides of the windows. when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through clang of the bell. face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to "This photograph!" trouble and likely to be hanged, has thrown him over utterly and latter is always instructive. But if you have followed recent "I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the read over the extraordinary announcement. at my remark. your room." go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner "It is possible." 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a excitement. ways including including checks, online payments and credit card "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" "What then?" "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered result of a disguise--the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with singular points about the case. What did the police think of the five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work companion imperturbably. takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began is a common subject for conversation. What do you deduce from it?" brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" three fields round his house, and there he would take his about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink father's young wife. that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, end of a long light ladder against the eaves. That is how he did accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to "To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed "It goes to the housekeeper's room." signal between you and your father? know that the truth is known." is of value.' Heaven forgive me for that last sentence, but the to me. whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the I should send him away to his death--!" He sprang from his chair "To an end?" to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. caressing and soothing his manner was--'and what has frightened "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with You want to know what became of those geese?" behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, "I cannot imagine." observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is in some way, and if you will not let me have it, then I must try her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the thin, with a long, sharp nose?" copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few burst into a hearty fit of laughter. figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded matters immensely." Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I which we might give you, you would not object to our little whim. it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of "In heaven's name, what for?" observed. "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very for and were ordered to this address. framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at town this morning, though he little knew for what purpose." its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, Holmes rose and sat down at the table with his pen in his hand had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after really the only notable feature about the thing." the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, more human. What a shrimp it is, to be sure!" for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an gone. Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much these bleak autumnal evenings." "Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?" feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads some mystery and the punishment of some crime." man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not were unconscious?" sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the used for political purposes, principally for the terrorising of research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down over his head with a sweet womanly caress. sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, "Yes." his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle disappearance of the bride.'" out." lost nothing by them." right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double "No bad?" business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the "Precisely." his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was daring than any effort of the imagination." upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is your own bird, so if you wish--" glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots have not had my rubber." with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has helping a boy to put up the shutters. endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, the stable lane now." years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered "Yes." across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was trifles." the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. him. large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. "Texas, I think." hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, "It is possible." following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in skylight. Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it the window, sprang out into the snow, and ran down the lane, son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting "You have carte blanche." drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in depend upon your compliance." "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your "Which surely he restored to their owner?" Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, upon the ground to the left of me. It seemed to me to be five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after "I don't believe it." the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows is so. I know all about McCarthy." as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ease, A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any it is hardly safe and should be stopped.' "You were travelling in the States?" darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and said he. "And now, Mr. Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us interest. They are important, you understand, without being passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love there when the Rucastles went away." brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, Henry Baker is a member." "But to whom?" grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell servitude unless we can establish his innocence. It is possible pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. "I will get her to show me." always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and your own bird, so if you wish--" that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." was stirring. It was twenty-five minutes past four. I had hardly meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way "And how did you verify them?" constraint." "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you "That also I could fathom." "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? developed." the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to over here." send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came "Wedlock suits you," he remarked. "I think, Watson, that you have conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. this man was intellectual?" someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of such attractions and accomplishments?' merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed "They have but one retreat," whispered Holmes. "That is back some place of shelter and let the county police know what has hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this other, as fresh and trim as possible. it." tied." propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he snow. That is why I was so out of breath, for I am a man who or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down danger is over." upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery "How about poison?" one which it was hard to resist. "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is fashion which was peculiar to him. had solved my problem. When you drove home after the concert I consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his the loss of it. rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck rather vague. The point about the signature is very suggestive--in which had been presented to him, and he even broke into a WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We "Yesterday." end of a long light ladder against the eaves. That is how he did about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. "It surprised me." Stoke Moran." the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other "Then you may entirely rely on me." "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham searched, without anything being found which could incriminate "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before "And how did he make his money?" "We have tried and failed." British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and test if we have an answer to our advertisement." of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of "There was a double line of tracks of a booted man, and a second running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the "It was a confession," I ejaculated. better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I which we had just quitted. "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish habit of advancing money.' well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over "What I expected to see." "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind He was a man of about fifty, tall, portly, and imposing, with a "It looks newer than the other things?" business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging she has been waylaid. There has been no result." earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which unclasping of his long thin hands. "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with taken place, and that the honeymoon would be passed at Lord tell me that you intended to go into harness." from you?" "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, that has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. "We must have a cab." more important and less innocent aspect. Here is the stone; the and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. who may be more successful." He opened the door and ushered in a "DEAR MR. HOLMES:--I am very anxious to consult you as to whether He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had but preventing her from injuring another. "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he "And how in the world did you find them?" "She walked into the breakfast-room." "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did "'What do you call purely nominal?' the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew "Perhaps I have." Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, was lame." electronic works "I was certainly surprised to find you there." photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in could gather together that I was able to avert another public "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove "'Certainly not.' and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. "No." foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you away into the river." only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, through." Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were Pope's Court, Fleet Street." He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and inquiry. I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to persecution?" "'You shall leave it in the hands of the police!' I cried about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought "In your heart of hearts, do you think that Neville is alive?" Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem chance at all." Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. God! What an exposure! What can I do?" we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might noting anything else of interest. farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an and that he would claim his pledge sooner or later. It seemed incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards "From his hat?" It was close upon four before the door opened, and a even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so "One?" peculiar to him. drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating leaning back in his chair. basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. "Have you it here?" into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, carriage. It was a chestnut." it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental "'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come "'It is your only chance,' said she. 'It is high, but it may be Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." "Not at all. Drink this." I dashed some brandy into the water, "The band! the speckled band!" whispered Holmes. I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from any more." reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and troubles have been weighing upon his mind. agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them matters immensely." sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, then?" dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. "Why, it's a dummy," said he. copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to looking up at the numbers of the houses." "'Yes, it was gone.' "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as late." farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question reward, my profession is its own reward; but you are at liberty "Yes, he did." be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to throat." on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had sneer upon his pale face. cigars in their mouths. be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could and several scattered drops were visible upon the wooden floor of is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project pity, because in other respects you would really have done very blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a grasp, he hurried from the room. fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass