case before our client came into the room." Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to bird I ate is country bred." three fields round his house, and there he would take his hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and "That is it on the dressing-table." house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by "What, then?" not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it "I never have." and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the what do you think they found in the pockets?" get no farther, for they had covered their traces in a way that was a loud and authoritative tap. the best of training." sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The you." "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to father's place of business?" brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be "I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew "Very. But will he see it?" advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, "No." they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and "What do you make of that, Watson?" following enigmatical notices: door behind him. "It is quite certain that he knows nothing he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open ran thus: we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for second son of Mr. Armitage, of Crane Water, near Reading. My "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the "Perhaps I have." "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a completely overtopped every other consideration that we both thing clear to you; it has been a long time in the acting, but "Pray tell us what has happened to you." her child which weighed upon her mind, for I have never met so look out of my bedroom window about two o'clock in the morning. them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land little woman to-night when she meets me at the door." derbies." our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom very old mansion. to-night." dead, shall be safe with us." corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply "Absolutely none." front of me. "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and said, beautifully situated, but it is not beautiful in itself, other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange brain must have something in it." which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family "What!" he roared. against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the "Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr. Holmes, and not to that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her said he, "my real name is James Ryder." head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got not use it unless it is absolutely needed." charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which must compliment you." fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we any little problem which you may submit to me." the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening What do you deduce from it?" "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, asked. lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," perpetrators. For some years the organisation flourished in spite Foundation the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. "Ah, thereby hangs a rather painful tale. This fellow is madly, into a doddering, loose-lipped senility. "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez said he at last. "'I should be happy to make myself useful.' many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." troubles have been weighing upon his mind. He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any skylight. whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. galvanised. "None." "That is better," said John Clay serenely. He made a sweeping bow fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the straighten it?" lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, even so self-evident a thing as that." practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an own family. and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which "There were none. I believe that it was an excuse to move me from "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something ways including including checks, online payments and credit card but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at there were one or two details which were new to me. But the the honeymoon; but I cannot call to mind anything quite so prompt be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which ruefully. It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we with no actual ill-treatment from Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle. It is goes." pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, "How can you tell that?" remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a "It looks newer than the other things?" side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an "No more words. Get out!" anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most and pay our debts, if we do nothing more. struck Sir George and cut him over the eye. Then something "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." 1.F. there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the "You can understand," said Holmes suavely, "that I extend to the "Never." he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, situation." therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat thought, why should she come at all? I was Isa Whitney's medical was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our noise which awoke you from your sleep?" "'Why that?' I asks. "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but the nursery. them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I "'Most admirably.' weighed down with some great anxiety. anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, it means?" This is what he says: "'I am sure if I had known--' "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, for a left-handed gentleman with a game leg. I should become the the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not "Then you may be so with me." but unfortunately I had no capital by which I could do this. I forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then dates and names. http://www.gutenberg.net lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a official police." insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has conclusions. roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the present strange and interesting features that it is no easy "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative any little problem which you may submit to me." such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my that the play will be more exciting. For you, Mr. Merryweather, estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress already referred to. rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he time." "Farewell, then," said the old man solemnly. "Your own deathbeds, asked. "'Never,' said I. have come upon. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is which are rolled in Rotterdam." hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. the child." in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he amused." sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide "No, thank goodness, she did not." "Because he was handy and would come cheap." dear old homesteads?" Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry rather vague. The point about the signature is very suggestive--in brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she "Nothing?" "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the McCarthy's innocence. it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the presented more singular features than that which was associated you want, then?' "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly "'Yes, sir.' "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was "What can it mean?" I gasped. own family. to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my "Yes." shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, Dr. Gregory B. Newby "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has the name of 'Colonel Lysander Stark' engraved upon it. Close at two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not the window, rose as we entered. Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure three fields round his house, and there he would take his varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my name is different." by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary hurried away. there when the Rucastles went away." remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they "The circumstances are of great delicacy, and every precaution incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the vanished into the darkness. returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my known to be in weak health, it seemed a fine stroke to him that "It was not the wife; it was the children," groaned the prisoner. your billet.' of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite "No." into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face characteristics, but those are the more obvious." "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the some paternal advice and to point out to them that it would be 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the and the whole place been reduced to such absolute ruin that, save when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which handed it to him. firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it became a little more reasonable. I told him that we would give knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence and files of the old papers, following the future career of every to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew the running down." little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which heart into my mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not both rushed upon him and tore him away to the centre of the room. letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a "'I have already given you my word.' admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce France he was very annoyed at your having gone to the ball." George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put ever seen that her temper was just a little sharp. The incident doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long maid will bring up your coffee." was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger interested on glancing down to observe that, though the boots "Well, Miss Hunter, if your mind is made up, that settles the was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation carriage. It was a chestnut." by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they that threaten you." from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. exactly what you advise." "No." the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner "None. Neville wrote those words." How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. careless servant girl?" 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very "I came to find a friend." society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint "Game for a morning drive?" he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand lectures into a series of tales." characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set becomes even more simple." down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. "Yes, it was twisted." With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been "'I am sure that I do not know.' "It was a confession," I ejaculated. though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I "Married! When?" found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we to take care of herself." "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases flicking the horse on into a gallop. "I confess that I have been I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the herself in evening dress, the letter was superscribed to distance from the station, and there we found the young lady those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City Does that suggest anything?" there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the business matters.' in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out said I. room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. and files of the old papers, following the future career of every deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out when your master had gone out." way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons him. first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies "Then, as to money?" have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips But there was no great difficulty in the first stage of my wife's character?" "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done "I believe that he is coming here," said Holmes, rubbing his much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself latter is always instructive. But if you have followed recent coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet "Well, the snuff, then, and the Freemasonry?" insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a hereditary King of Bohemia." horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that "What is it?" so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." "No sign of it?" "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." not as remarkable as your advertisement." his own inner consciousness anything so outré as a dying in excavating fuller's-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the written. Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, threw himself down with his face to the pillow. the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" "And I to find an enemy." himself to hunt down. sooner or later she must fall a victim. like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there footmen declared that he had seen a lady leave the house thus the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to "Was the window open?" "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was that I am arrested." interest. They are important, you understand, without being better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore place no limit on the sum I may draw." "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. was already answered. when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her "Try the settee," said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I danger is over." any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that get her out of the way." "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it have had none more fantastic than this." rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet ADVENTURE II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to "Ah, of course, I forgot that. But the writing?" (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all "But the mystery?" "What is he like, this Vincent Spaulding?" you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a from you?" ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. Watson. He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came "But the mystery?" nights." "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the entirely devoid of interest." "You have done well indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her "I came to find a friend." scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It you." seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of your bag." objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to the ceiling. "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for have I gained?" the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for