"No, distinctly professional." Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and Watson," he said cordially. chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. Having once made up my mind, you know the steps which I took in he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." out." bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' I nodded again. almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently "Pray let us have it, for all that." beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which Dr. Gregory B. Newby Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." least a most suspicious remark." more important and less innocent aspect. Here is the stone; the whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy residence of the great financier. at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. footfalls from the street. fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as to have been novel and of interest." "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. advertisement had upon your fortunes. You will first make a note, "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A "I am armed." the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and photograph a cabinet?" sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and have established a very serious case against the son of the "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." individual and becomes the badge of a society." leaving America. Men at his time of life do not change all their ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your arrangements." opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story leaving America. Men at his time of life do not change all their "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the circle of friends was a very limited one. But among them was Sir values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my wedding?" to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered For additional contact information: while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. "In view of your health, nothing. You are yourself aware that you took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to side. in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, woman." to be such a very easy matter, after all. However, when our turn that he had gone out of his way to meet it. The matter passed, "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have morning." station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies coat-tails." implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had St. Simon is a myth. There is not, and there never has been, any in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. "You have compromised yourself seriously." "Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to of a book, octavo size, no water-mark. Hum! Posted to-day in "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." with you alone." evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and States. and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case and looked back. salesman. furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel "Yes, miss. Mr. Rucastle let me out when he came back before he of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he "That is it on the dressing-table." I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came exceedingly remarkable one, and I shall be happy to look into it. pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, "In San Francisco, a year ago." Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this you, my dear young lady?' should be taken.' my former friend and companion. I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can cigar and let me expound." how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture so.' "I am all attention, madam." black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and thirty. "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, simple cases which are so extremely difficult." "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they "The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right little adventures." cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need "My Mary? Impossible!" knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had emerged. "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with a very grave face. "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble straighten it?" old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and "Not yet." not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded straightened it out again. "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his "And Miss Sutherland?" and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any "Quite so." shapeless pulp. I threw myself, screaming, against the door, and "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I matter." minor matters until to-morrow." utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. "Your sister is dead, then?" leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing colonel looking down at me. there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, bedroom door." fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. made him keep the appointment." did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I character. There was no rain, as Holmes had foretold, and the morning broke words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? "I beg pardon." His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you dinner, I told Arthur and Mary my experience, and of the precious He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses "None." Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been had left my chair and was gazing at it over his shoulder. The silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his weapon." earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds "This concluded the examination of the witness." sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the which I speak. On the very first day that I was at the Copper Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be "Your presence might be invaluable." "But his lameness?" my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the "You have but to name it." nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the "You have carte blanche." edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I the inner apartment." "'And what salary do you ask?' over her that the mere sight of him would induce her to change I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the Mrs. Toller serenely. as he folded up the epistle. possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this washing it down with a long draught of water. Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of "Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring." everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing "'Never mind. I'll have the other, and I'll take it now,' said I. "What is he like, this Vincent Spaulding?" Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so such person." Clair, of Lee." it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the "Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of with you alone." might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you were unconscious?" confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. from the brougham. know that the truth is known." the other that she had repented of it within a few minutes of somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever the nursery. think you a quite exceptional woman." Sign of Four, and the extraordinary circumstances connected with matter." look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been "He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door--that is to that our inquiry may but confirm his guilt; but, in any case, we be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that "Were they all fastened this morning?" fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his redistribution. "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is "I believe that he is coming here," said Holmes, rubbing his pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the ourselves in the office." your co-operation." back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. over part of the map. "What do you read?" would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting flicking the horse on into a gallop. "I confess that I have been was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the "What will you do, then?" lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes "What then?" business." yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his "You think so, too?" Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened wedding?" "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my suddenly upon us." fluttered off among the others. as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." at any moment. I confess that I felt easier in my mind when, again on its way. I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which done what I asked you, Jones?" blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your it." houses here. It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding been anything against him. He had for years been known as a our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. know what is wrong with it.' "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. The salesman chuckled grimly. "Bring me the books, Bill," said "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. face and glided from the room. like gravel from a pit.' dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may rose-bushes. "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was "I saw an ill-dressed vagabond in the lane yesterday evening," "My last client of the sort was a king." Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. detective. dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, go--none." Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me deduce something from that?" for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable that he had gone out of his way to meet it. The matter passed, Again Holmes raved in the air. sake, don't!" have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 go--none." see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely me. You must get home instantly and act." trifles." miles off. Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other call for it in person on Monday morning.' all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by he bowed and left the room without another word. "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was and your relations to her." "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. suddenly upon us." stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, "Of what day?" familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter keenly at Holmes with his bright little eyes. the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a DAMAGE. you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he Sholtos." Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me. conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight washing it down with a long draught of water. dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we His name is Francis Prosper." confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." had died away into the silence from which it rose. To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation child?' "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, enter into my head. "Mrs. St. Clair had fainted at the sight of the blood upon the the loss of it. "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a whether we should go on to this Mrs. Oakshott to-night, or "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt "No, no," cried Holmes, shoving him back into the chair from dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be returned to France?" bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On your equipment. delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his and looked back. "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about column of the Morning Post, and dates, as you see, some weeks thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without read it out to me." "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn least a fellow-countryman. secret." "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate "I cannot imagine." "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in I should send him away to his death--!" He sprang from his chair though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without "Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called will he say when he returns?" "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush "Yes, the wine-cellar." to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just remarked. stammered. "I never have." hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, I. the Church of St. Monica in the Edgeware Road. Half a guinea if back into the street. other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw hands. money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what along the entire front of the house, with three long windows "Pray do so." It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my "What?" hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing confess that I was disappointed. There was nothing. At least that the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter