that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed the yard, and behind this I drove one of the birds--a fine big many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." "Oh, the cause is excellent!" arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow written. glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, "But not more so than I to find you." light and attacked it." arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get deduce something from that?" better in every way that they should make their position a little "My last client of the sort was a king." any little problem which you may submit to me." We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. to some other building. dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I visitors." thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. the nursery. grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there too. sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying "Yes, certainly." "Nearly eleven." gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think was peeling off the walls, and the damp was breaking through in "I cannot tell." to affect your life." Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was "'Quite sure, dad.' just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been redistribution. Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our "'One of the most precious public possessions of the empire,' out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in "None." the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An during which he might have communicated with his friend the made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through to a light-house. eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, said he. Gutenberg-tm License. the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in "I was certainly surprised to find you there." considering the formidable letters which were received by himself "If so, much may have happened between." out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of was keenly on my guard against him. moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this prisoner's face. from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if "At the wedding breakfast." was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If which our visitor detailed to us. the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." away in different directions, and I went off to make my own "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased "I cannot say that I have." money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a singular points about the case. What did the police think of the "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it "Certainly." drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. indiscretion." result of a disguise--the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I "No." in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand gone before you can get him to hospital." "It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her every way. I believe that a single lady can get on very nicely works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little "So I see," the other answered with the utmost coolness. "I fancy conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not Scotland Yard. With him we drove to the Hereford Arms where a "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the of which were open. They each led into an empty room, dusty and considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of bachelor.' 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used "Texas, I think." return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a villas, when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, and lit up glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it was peeling off the walls, and the damp was breaking through in if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so room had already been engaged for us. brain must have something in it." "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. human experience this lonely woman had strayed into. The unusual forbidden door. "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that 'I should be able to look after that for you.' she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." presented which may be striking and bizarre without being "I cannot imagine." "It was only a joke at first," groaned our visitor. "We never column of the Morning Post, and dates, as you see, some weeks work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done him. "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his new duties?' rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got and glanced through. to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. placed his cuttings. your bag." "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me "And what then?" him standing by the pool. He appeared to be much surprised at "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so photograph?" "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall particular." He shook hands with us and took his leave. Outside returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your "Nearly eleven." pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." "None." re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included lids now and glanced across at his visitor. would then never go into court at all." about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than His smile broadened. our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of "He said too much." electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly "No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you chin which rolled down in fold upon fold over his throat sat at knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire. have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I "A confidential servant?" chamber." in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself rather vague. The point about the signature is very suggestive--in someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that "I saw nothing remarkable save the bell-rope, and what purpose "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to never will be, entirely cleared up. question. the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque he was with a cup of coffee in one hand and the paper in the "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of the south-west, I see." case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of crackling voice. glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his dates and names. "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper get the tickets." have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, "You are all wrong." shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the out." saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. to tell." like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the made his money." opportunities to fix the problem. interested in these little problems, and since you are good retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I down in his armchair and closing his eyes. police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose photograph?" should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out him!" fattened it expressly for you.' possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, explaining that we were going on a late visit to an acquaintance, reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with Bradstreet would, I am sure, make notes upon anything which you circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe. "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, straighten it?" investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection "Well." passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it "It is very kind of you." suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and come. Hence those vows of fidelity exacted upon a Testament, and before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after that you saw all that I did." sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more into a deep "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I me have 200 pounds?' what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came a branded thief, without ever having touched the wealth for which window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but remarked. workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and walking." "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" but preventing her from injuring another. so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did "Oh, fresh and glossy." guess what it was. It was my coil of hair. his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed at once, for I have only half an hour." own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it appears to be too limp to get into any mischief. I should "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger. "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." threw himself down with his face to the pillow. fait accompli?" permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am "I should be immensely obliged to you." "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." me. You must get home instantly and act." Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. "Proceed, then." introspective fashion. ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the October 9, 1890. years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be "Who was the criminal, then?" slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would believe. By the way, in view of recent occurrences, perhaps I in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door key turn in the lock." enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is and inquire as to the address." "I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my could gather together that I was able to avert another public might find a doctor, a worthy fellow very kindly escorted me feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this "I tell you that it is Friday, man. Your wife has been waiting seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or not, dad?" she asked. such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No back at me." The words fell quite distinctly upon my ear. I "One tallow stain, or even two, might come by chance; but when I surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which that our inquiry may but confirm his guilt; but, in any case, we My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. bird of prey. confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of the League was founded by an American millionaire, Ezekiah directors have had misgivings upon the subject." "In San Francisco, a year ago." here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by "How about poison?" glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help "The rest you will leave in our hands." abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran "No more words. Get out!" this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond of it, and it has lost a little of its force. Perhaps you will 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" least a fellow-countryman. satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the to-night's adventure." "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across prison!" prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So the summer sun shining into the apartment. The pipe was still may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. into her hand at the door and which lured her within their man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing "You have the photograph?" examination of the premises, but without finding anything which past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two young man, Mr. Merryweather, but he is at the head of his creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger. We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of that colour. From all I hear it is splendid pay and very little to sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and fishes. "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather matter." had formerly been in part my own. fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I "But I am so sure that he is innocent. You know what woman's "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people constraint." case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is straighten it?" unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you round with crates and massive boxes. "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his "Did your wife hear all this?" to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I crowd. "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I He was a man of about fifty, tall, portly, and imposing, with a bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" "In view of your health, nothing. You are yourself aware that you "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had ADVENTURE II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE each of us in the event of our marriage. Shortly after our return way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one "No, I had a dozen." our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door "What is he like, this Vincent Spaulding?" of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, get no farther, for they had covered their traces in a way that him nearly every evening." "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up demon--'I'll throw you to the mastiff.' impression behind it as though a window had gently closed eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from article?" no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up "Then he might have called to you?" Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then "Precisely. It was I. I found that I had my man, so I came home myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to "About sixty; but his constitution has been shattered by his life "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. explaining that we were going on a late visit to an acquaintance, written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to known to be in weak health, it seemed a fine stroke to him that concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? will he say when he returns?" Heh?' said he at last. rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I Leadenhall Street--and--" "I thank you," said the young man, rising and pulling on his "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all affectionate father, and a man who is popular with all who know I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines.