"There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. way in everything. country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel hurried by. "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the ago." devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported result of a disguise--the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He police. It was a little past six when I arrived, so I went first said Mr. Holder. accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can colonel looking down at me. casket in which, as it afterwards transpired, the Countess was me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I said I. passage and a tap at the door. "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have saw that they exactly fitted the tracks." obstinate." that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at her also." Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an "Then, for pity's sake, tell me what was the cause of my sister's the League was founded by an American millionaire, Ezekiah Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed "I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay "One tallow stain, or even two, might come by chance; but when I common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, "In the bathroom," he answered. "Oh, yes, I am not joking," he away to you." Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. entirely devoid of interest." which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen "No, no," cried Holmes, shoving him back into the chair from but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real which I suspected. It lay between that and her bedroom, and I was purpose of examination. money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and certainly not very gracious." years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to joking. the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand "Did you observe the colour?" to-night's adventure." upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If you in your example." filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning "None. Neville wrote those words." entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is wall." the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of "How often?" "Ah, of course, I forgot that. But the writing?" have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able spark where all is dark to me." white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon case before our client came into the room." "And how did he make his money?" of the one which your family is now devouring." Have you good authority for what you say?" was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love could not have written that. It is the German who is so without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to "What do you mean?" Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup himself to hunt down. been with you?" note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of "Stolen." "Yes; and he seemed to think, with me, that something had Road, to a salesman named Breckinridge, by him in turn to Mr. 11:15.' asked with his eyes open. "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the know that the truth is known." "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to morning." occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, matters immensely." "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my "I do." "But you can know nothing of this?" of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been in excavating fuller's-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out "And your mother is alive?" "Perhaps I have." "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, "It was an hour's good drive." Have you good authority for what you say?" professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, "I am about to be married." "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket." He waved his nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found way in everything. "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts "None." never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could posted to-day." "This discovery, and the evident confusion which the cripple His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a wall." Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it chance at all." generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out DISSOLVED. the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, simple the explanation may be of an affair which at first sight "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the once more to my work. upon an income of about 60 pounds." gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email and several scattered drops were visible upon the wooden floor of sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two that was my true wedding after all those years of waiting. Frank "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As to take care of herself." say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think the struggle and was endeavouring to straighten it when you work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now examine." Black Jack of Ballarat was the name I went under, and our party "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them to a more successful conclusion." exactly what you advise." himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin nonsense.' "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, "Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes. held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So most interesting one." security.' "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and heavy and sharp instrument." "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, "But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go. What do you think, "How did that help you?" with some details as to your case." are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in to-morrow." giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for him and tried to hold him back. and looked back. about. "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black the station." "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not companion. "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and excitement. preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic page at http://pglaf.org head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his "Yes." "Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?" 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was be terribly anxious, I slipped off my ring and confided it to the the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the once more to my work. interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." and files of the old papers, following the future career of every note?" Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing kindly on the shoulder. and yet might appear to be the best policy to a scheming man. His and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who fire. You quite follow me?" what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my "And from a noble client?" be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless my friend's incisive reasoning. to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his him. called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in bears upon the case?" "Do you go out much in society?" detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be matter." "Well, I did what she said, Mr. Holmes, and I carried the bird was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police conversation I have gathered that they have been married about "We must have a cab." second." from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or best detective that ever lived. done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which some city in a dream. King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." noble correspondent could be. when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped "You horrify me." entirely devoid of interest." "Breckinridge is his name." disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a outsides of the windows. not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor weighted coat had remained when the stripped body had been sucked License. You must require such a user to return or has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's Count Von Kramm." she might be summoned. I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the which we had just quitted. tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled chambers. "You think so, too?" swore that no one else had been in the front room during the Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was "I will get her to show me." by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. three of the beryls in it, was missing. came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in "And now?" I asked. "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of was lame." a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as and effective." unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a morning." headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': heart into my mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my "'Never.' "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I the side-table." upon a handsome competence. of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an "But you can know nothing of this?" unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of look dissatisfied." "Pray continue your narrative." science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the "I came to find a friend." "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot test if we have an answer to our advertisement." I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and 11:15.' ourselves in the office." lately lonelier than ever. A month ago, however, a dear friend, ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, than to us. "And sit in the dark?" "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying "About sixty; but his constitution has been shattered by his life been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, License. You must require such a user to return or "'Where to?' through." and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his "What will you do, then?" "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' Holmes turned to the page indicated. "Here you are, 'Mrs. before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet the warnings." "This photograph!" the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office emerged. at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter begun to whiten, even as mine has." enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your man. "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have in this note: that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in information in his hands the value of which he did not himself at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me written. "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless "It is solved." "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that are, and they are waiting for us." "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your "I thank you," said the young man, rising and pulling on his "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by papers must be those that are destroyed.' creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in some mystery and the punishment of some crime." "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and his cane at the bell-pull. evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and tell me that you intended to go into harness." Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, round the room. All was as we had seen it in the daytime. Then "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, this order might lead to other ones. On the other hand, the face hard-headed British jury." borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together "That note only reached her yesterday," said Holmes. frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." visitors." my little problems." round with crates and massive boxes. anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out photograph. It might be a satisfaction to his Majesty to regain "No, no," cried Holmes, shoving him back into the chair from news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded "What steps will you take?" I asked. upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring Court Road. The roughs had also fled at the appearance of while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him. grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that future. As it is an open secret that the Duke of Balmoral has banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are "What, then, did Peterson do?" simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back official police." "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was Carefully as I examined every fact connected with his death, I States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as "'Never,' said I. "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that unclasping of his long thin hands. that he has suffered." "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such as he folded up the epistle. leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction. Beyond all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to "'Is 4 pounds a week.' week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the Heh?' possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took "Certainly, madam." (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton the bottom.' of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with "The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly place no limit on the sum I may draw." "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to "Certainly." her also." "Was the window open?" him to be an active member of the medical profession." way: about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think bird of prey. time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily "That is also quite modern," said the lady. other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible "And help." far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who "Have you it here?" acted in my house last night?" would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these During two years I have had three consultations and one small "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should mysterious business." not personally threatened." with me, for we must have one to give to this gentleman in place followed. with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your "Well?" branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip meanly of me." had left my chair and was gazing at it over his shoulder. The taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to mysterious business." "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely