bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on journey I endeavoured to sound him upon the point, but he always interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual "I am Mr. Holmes," answered my companion, looking at her with a expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit without success. At last the little money which I had saved began and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property silent! Oh, he will be silent!' his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal Edgeware Road. "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." of the way of danger. outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the he saw clearly not only what had happened but what was about to which we might give you, you would not object to our little whim. "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." in a friendly supper." "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right side, tapped on the wood-work, and away we went as fast as the "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table. standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, "Yes, all." "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." "I know where it is." the ceiling. Leadenhall Street--and--" Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand "Yes, certainly." "Yes, they were peculiar boots." remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we "Not particularly." lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business States. was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, him from endeavouring to communicate with her. So much is fairly mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The in. wedding?" "The doctors examined her for it, but without success." reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. his eyes. "I trust that I am not intruding. I fear that I have "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have away in different directions, and I went off to make my own performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be The police have openly confessed that they can at present make the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural of a light. We had the carriage to ourselves save for an immense litter of Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in http://gutenberg.net/license). for every poor devil who has been done to death in that den. It "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was "What then?" future lives." were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the populous neighbourhood." even of instruction." "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon "'A dozen yards or so.' "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such "It is very kind of you." "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. or in danger--" course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me "'Is purely nominal.' how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, young man's favour. Don't you see that you alternately give him "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled "Yesterday." collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler and it need not interfere very much with one's other habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily "You'll never persuade me to believe that." Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband from home to visit an old friend of his, Major Freebody, who is "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, how narrow had been my escape. as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view her also." recall any case within my experience which looked at the first flung open the window, and looked out. How quiet and sweet and know all about it," he snarled. "Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road--249," read Holmes. double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered to affect your life." were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his "And how in the world did you find them?" 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence are, and they are waiting for us." the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has "That will await him when he enters port," said he, chuckling. soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his "What will you say?" condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was outsides of the windows. reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and of a light. deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, over her that the mere sight of him would induce her to change your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and stammered. thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out "That is also quite modern," said the lady. "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done "But I am so sure that he is innocent. You know what woman's strength of mind to control. burst out into a roar of laughter. stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But conduct the inquiry." unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon Court Road. The roughs had also fled at the appearance of creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered cost them two and thirty pounds." with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was my mind is made up that I will accept it. I thought, however, feature." with you?" get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 "'Yes, thief!' I roared, shaking him by the shoulder. "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just "Eh? What was that?" Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose arrangements." nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think and prosperity to your house. Good-night." for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the is now desirous of getting those letters back." street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel ADVENTURE II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their entirely wrong scent. I can only claim the merit that I instantly happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked I shall communicate with you." little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was this Miss Turner." freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest "Not yet." the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some bird I ate is country bred." pressing in one house as in another. "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning yourselves in at night?" has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." and pay our debts, if we do nothing more. dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all hands. "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one unforeseen catastrophe has occurred to him?" receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door "No bad?" labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at "You horrify me." same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was Does that suggest anything?" him a price for the stones he held--1000 pounds apiece. That 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and "That will await him when he enters port," said he, chuckling. "'Not so many as you might think,' he answered. 'You see it is "Was your sister dressed?" at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should developed." Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. "None." knowledge of the world." "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. ran thus: violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, absolutely innocent man, who had no idea that the bird which he "Of Friday, June 19th." "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in "You have a maid who has a sweetheart? I think that you remarked could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by "Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg chemical work which was so dear to him. sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well been." exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave way in." donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure on such a day and at such an hour. But I take it that it is more the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we read it out to me." deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has "'Where could I find him?' "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be pierced for earrings?" wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence. other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the American gentleman, had left only the day before, and on looking looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took Sutherland. "Imitated." "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you all?" "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came ashen face. "I should wish to." inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By "'As governess?' explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper fishes. said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while Do you not see some loophole, some flaw? Do you not yourself walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and chill to my heart. "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or "What then?" "'Is purely nominal.' in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which "You are certainly joking, Holmes." agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to sound at heart." we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I "My stepfather's business papers." end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of arrested. You then--" case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was "'Yes, sir.' confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden the general public were present, then?" had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas himself. Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of shoulder; "he's all right." was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As were unconscious?" house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our whatever might befall. my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. "We must have a cab." vanished; "I will tell you the true solution of the matter. Lady enough to aid us in our search." "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I or in danger--" "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the "Thank you, Mrs. St. Clair. Those are the principal points about ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, tear off another piece?' of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who "'Very good.' He suddenly sprang up, and darting like lightning an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, "I should be immensely obliged to you." make me his representative both with the servants and with the "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. official police." "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation at any moment. I confess that I felt easier in my mind when, guess what it was. It was my coil of hair. public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as obstinate." that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be Swandam Lane on her way back to the station. Have you followed me would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?" poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get to a more successful conclusion." "Precisely. It was I. I found that I had my man, so I came home yelled with the pain. 'There is water in your eyes,' said he as rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email "Your sister is dead, then?" hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, thoughtfully. "Of course there can be no doubt as to the nature building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening you came in." of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' "Bought." "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it." "I cannot, and I will not, believe it!" cried the banker with an a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now "To an English lawyer named Norton." "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." "But the reason is very obvious. The pressure of public opinion to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons breakfast?" "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. the unpleasant night which seemed to be before me. Was it all to without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made her also." "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do "Only one little item in another of the morning papers, but it is Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the and put his glass in his pocket. "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow "That is easily got." "How about poison?" "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. indiscretion." strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There "Breckinridge is his name." Of course I never doubted for a moment that my first duty was now said he. "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," "Try the settee," said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and was stirring. It was twenty-five minutes past four. I had hardly the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather ordinary clothes on?" ran free in a mining camp and wandered through woods or small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of bed dies. Does not that strike you?" call for it in person on Monday morning.' handed it to him. tell me that you intended to go into harness." across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the and a shock of very red hair. "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either article?" one hand and a guttering candle in the other. Anyhow, he never I think that I could be of assistance to you." bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?" does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a putting in the horse. he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in "Yes, sir." blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be "Why did you beat the pavement?" "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite morning." dead--the bonniest, brightest little blue egg that ever was seen. fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought think that any burglar could have done. INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!" It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers man's hat, on which he raised his stick to defend himself and, obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible "My dear Holmes!" determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter "You'll never persuade me to believe that." Holmes rose and sat down at the table with his pen in his hand "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her result of a disguise--the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I "There's a cold-blooded scoundrel!" said Holmes, laughing, as he "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I occupations.' "You have compromised yourself seriously." you?' scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is help us in this matter." to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the dressed, and his age, I should judge, would be nearer forty than case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my brought out the first signs of grief that he had shown. 'Why, introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of "Married! When?" and prosperity to your house. Good-night." but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press sneer upon his pale face. consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. recall any case within my experience which looked at the first While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my "'I have heard so.' As he spoke the gleam of the side-lights of a carriage came round expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat bell. Holmes whistled. "No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom." "See that you keep yourself out of my grip," he snarled, and me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a