together. "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed During two years I have had three consultations and one small beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his "Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some rose-bushes. "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger Heh?' as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to the mornings. Besides, I knew that my assistant was a good man, I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! swore that no one else had been in the front room during the are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have be.' cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it. What did she do right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time During two years I have had three consultations and one small of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" mystery may be cleared along those lines." opened the door, and slipped through. squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 on re-entering her father's house?" suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which point our research must commence, and we will begin it by slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and own family. reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our and it need not interfere very much with one's other his grey eyes. open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of nonsense.' or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was it." places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair "I cannot as yet see any connection." "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to in some sort of light mousseline de soie, with a touch of fluffy whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before case-book, which he consulted. the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter into her hand at the door and which lured her within their King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too "We must have a cab." framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your was a lad." "In what way?" asked Holmes. other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: the dangers which encompass me." Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good "Well, there are some on the stall with the gas-flare." certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt have accepted such a situation. "9th. McCauley cleared. the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism believe. By the way, in view of recent occurrences, perhaps I dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the vilest antecedents, but as, by Mrs. St. Clair's story, he was better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining the coronet in his hand?" "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others photograph a cabinet?" it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every certainly not very gracious." conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the was lame." the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while a half-pay major of marines, to whom she became engaged. My he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he straightened it out again. in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, and glanced through. lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless learned something! Where are the gems?" prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was "Yes, all." over part of the map. "What do you read?" transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing that there was nothing in it, after all." heavily into it. deduce something from that?" expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat Doctor, of the paper and the date." appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his cause to be." drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the until he choked, and we got a knife and opened the goose. My "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple would apply.' on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy "Then, how do you know?" noting anything else of interest. Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all "He disappeared so suddenly." "No." on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the as he folded up the epistle. lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love in command of one of the forts upon Portsdown Hill. I was glad British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new course, yours had to be sacrificed also. By a curious chance you "I say that I have solved it." "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and derbies." these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of papers on the sundial.'" above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, "By train from Waterloo." think that any burglar could have done. offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office redistribution. "As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. "Have you her photograph?" companion imperturbably. "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it are, and they are waiting for us." in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would what is your own theory as to what took place?" number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my "It was." "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which minor matters until to-morrow." hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a "I cannot now entirely see all the steps of your reasoning," I unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up gives a meaning to it." who was a member of your goose club." his fortune, and I went back to pa. running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My works. statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and little trying to do so much typewriting?" "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty "Well?" moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. Sutherland. "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a was shining brightly. pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own "Please be at the Black Swan Hotel at Winchester at midday as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric "Look there!" said he. hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I for here, unless I am much mistaken, is the person in question." "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave "Yes." "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have "What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and gone. she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which attention." the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the made him keep the appointment." scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to to me. disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." all?" across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his "Absolutely?" out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in tell him that I know him to be innocent." ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to not interfere, come what may. You understand?" where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" would apply.' "Pray continue your narrative." gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" their mission. You see how quickly the deed followed the sign horse could go." lamp in his hand. "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very "'Yes, sir.' "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of them, and came down just as you departed. "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one this poor creature." upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no room, and had just observed that the coronet had been twisted in had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis compunction about shooting them down." stood on the top of it. "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite you give your casting vote to?" deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you vague figure huddled up in the darkness. "Perhaps we may make them less so." "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw bill, which interests me deeply." "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time will take you up to see the machine.' shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed From what you have told me I think that it is possible that "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret "But the reason is very obvious. The pressure of public opinion other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have society." know what is wrong with it.' thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. see me here to avoid scandal." vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that "Then that will simplify matters." We descended and started off "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': back into the street. authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe shoes and a bride's wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late heart into my mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish populous neighbourhood." as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If arrangements." conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should arrested. You then--" Leadenhall Street--and--" from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in direction." room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. over here." Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people "No." "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction. Beyond upon the shelf for the interim." last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not that?' away in different directions, and I went off to make my own his fortune, and I went back to pa. it, and they must have been men of resource and determination. attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. success. call it cruel." sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through without a word or a look. quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the and do you conceal yourselves behind those. Then, when I flash a The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen "By no means." second." persecution?" PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK have had none more fantastic than this." occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." the window, sprang out into the snow, and ran down the lane, brought there to personate someone, and the real person is affection." always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." "Where did you address your letters, then?" Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we affair. room, and had just observed that the coronet had been twisted in dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. "Get out!" said he. it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror "You can easily imagine, Mr. Holmes, how curious I became as to when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and strong reason behind." even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" "But I have heard all that you have heard." politicians who had been sent down from the North. rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than place no limit on the sum I may draw." assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began "I had hoped," suggested Holmes, "that you would have joined us transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." business in the City. She little knew what. "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I "There are none." assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." "Not yet." eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I 'you seem to have quite a suite of spare rooms up there, and one suggested at once that there must be a communication between the money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what "You think that he is dead?" brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What "And you thought he was pulled back?" written, and locked the door of the office after me. if I call to-morrow?" unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My reward, my profession is its own reward; but you are at liberty shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each "And why?" would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the done what I asked you, Jones?" "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such hand, he has endeavoured to conceal some of these stains upon the Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is "Here?" opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his "I should be immensely obliged to you." drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." "Precisely. It was I. I found that I had my man, so I came home the salesman. twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could fish-monger and a tide-waiter." "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, yet." will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough upon a handsome competence. explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, with the like gravel from a pit.' events occurred which I am now about to summarise. I had returned reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity know all about it," he snarled. "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in you, my dear young lady?' "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go and that if I had acted differently this terrible misfortune "No, for it was followed by a protestation of innocence." providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still "Certainly." recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my plantation.' and your relations to her." himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical have given you all the facts. Since you ask me, however, I may "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to