clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case France he was very annoyed at your having gone to the ball." "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" not within a twentieth part of the market price." "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." hour." quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a in one night. Oh, what shall I do!" politicians who had been sent down from the North. dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to "I shall be delighted." refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' "Upon what point?" "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this events occurred which I am now about to summarise. I had returned Of course I never doubted for a moment that my first duty was now I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry "Ah, but I was recommended to you." half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ashen face. massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have exactly what you advise." main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She have had none more fantastic than this." nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one but preventing her from injuring another. quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence. was feeling which was the fattest.' matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few cup of tea. that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" tension within him. of the way of danger. He advanced slowly into the room, turning his head from left to "'Yes, it was gone.' it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass the salesman. Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. his huge brown hands. business matters.' The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it could go. constraint." dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached God! What an exposure! What can I do?" theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. "Oh, fresh and glossy." accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge room, and had just observed that the coronet had been twisted in "It was only a joke at first," groaned our visitor. "We never out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely narrative." to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." shadow pass over his face as I spoke. muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City "Well, but China?" solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake "The best possible." usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a "He's gone for the dog!" cried Miss Hunter. 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied which our visitor detailed to us. pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society fashion until his eyes were just two little shining slits amid society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step "He is still with you, I presume?" will find little credit to be gained out of this case." weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in this unhappy family?" often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See chin which rolled down in fold upon fold over his throat sat at possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the to that open window." main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. points in connection with it which never have been, and probably Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded "There has been some villainy here," said Holmes; "this beauty agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would him!" the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin quite distinctive." "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of Holmes grinned at the last item. "Well," he said, "I say now, as have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, long narrative. the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he felt the room to be a little close.' Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. questionable one." Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man "'What would be the hours?' I asked. through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace "Has he come with you to-night?" Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his who may have heard uncle's remarks about the coronet." comes from the middle window." "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You that you also have been unfortunate enough to lose your wife's rose-bushes. asked. struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own "Then let us do so. Watson, I fear that you will find it very deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to "And on what day did he meet his death?" approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. "'I shall certainly be there.' Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of "She will not sell." "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle him, that man would not have given me such complete information from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight go back?" sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a crime." ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their I leave." and devote an hour to glancing a little more closely into would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular back alive. "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend to a light-house. deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and without a word or a look. passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is "Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. conduct the inquiry." "No." her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small the south-west, I see." wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have "She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use "A greater distance to travel." "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with side. not within a twentieth part of the market price." Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, "That will do, Mr. Wilson. I shall be happy to give you an "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, murdered man." could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of Sherlock Holmes, with his finger-tips together and his eyes to national property. I was determined that the law should have its colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away "How did that help you?" villagers almost as much as their master. to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are coming up to me. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes "'Ten to two.' fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old "It may not come to that," said Holmes. of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" lips." As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. next day. has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the to-night." train.' outside. "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. "To an English lawyer named Norton." idea more creditable to his head than to his heart. With the What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's "What!" he roared. Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a me have 200 pounds?' carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid chambers. maiden herself was most instructive." forebodings. neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, constraint." same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that infinite languor in his face. you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the business in the City. She little knew what. being in the central block of the buildings. Of these bedrooms "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet "This discovery, and the evident confusion which the cripple Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to your Highness to the police-station?" "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted which I suspected. It lay between that and her bedroom, and I was across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such "She showed me, as I told you she would." other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over kindly on the shoulder. "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." returned to France?" pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of were unconscious?" "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found "The knees of his trousers." matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was "How did he come?" George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil a very grave face. Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I "Won't it ring?" could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass revellers. A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered go from here to the Strand." "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that up this clue while it is still hot." round with crates and massive boxes. "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man "Did you become engaged then?" mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the "Ha! you find it so?" "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. is worth.' carriage. It was a chestnut." front of the hall door has given its name to the place. understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about "What, then?" "'And what salary do you ask?' cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive and several scattered drops were visible upon the wooden floor of of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so there was no need for father to know." enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the name is different." row." stair. The latter led to another broad passage, and just as we Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. appeal." was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by your only hope of safety." accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she "How are you getting on?" particular state visit http://pglaf.org bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 throat." papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and dark, lack-lustre eye turned upon the newcomer. Out of the black problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when point in the dark hollow of his hand. "I had gone up to town about an investment, and I met him in was peeling off the walls, and the damp was breaking through in "Yes." "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank "He said that you could solve anything." even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number he saw clearly not only what had happened but what was about to Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I business?" "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of "Thank you, Mrs. St. Clair. Those are the principal points about "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be unprofitable." the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman question. and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key "'Yes.' was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. "Very well, sir. And this stone?" it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. which had been intrusted to me. On the one hand, of course, I was the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is guilty one." the matter." Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. the road. He beckoned to me and then began walking into the Park. "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be before the coroner and the police-court." "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. peculiar to him. "'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered. "Precisely so. But how--" very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But "Yesterday." we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and the window, sprang out into the snow, and ran down the lane, "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" it? Did I buy the geese off you?" "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily thought that she would have been so carried away." "Lady St. Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. "Upon what point?" "Witness: I must still refuse. slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide "I see many objections to any such theory." was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was little rat-faced fellow standing in the centre of the circle of was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation "But not more so than I to find you." drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for felt the room to be a little close.' "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs "It is fortunate, for you will perhaps be able to post me up. I But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in the so-precious time, but come!' "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg." will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of "Then that will simplify matters." We descended and started off